[2] The area was also home to Price Maurice, who moved to Castambul in 1856 and bred Angora goats for wool.

Angora goats were introduced from Turkey to South Australia by John Haigh, who bred them near Port Lincoln.

His enterprises in South Australia were very successful but he returned to Britain with his family in 1862 for health reasons.

In 1966, work started on the Kangaroo Creek Reservoir, a dam of the River Torrens, and in 1969, it was completed at a cost of $5.3 million.

Apart from supplying water to eastern Adelaide, it also serves a flood protection role and holds 19,160 megalitres.