[3] The South Western railway line enters the locality from the south-east (Goondiwindi) and exits to the south-west (Toobeah).

[3] The locality takes its name from a pastoral run held from 1847 by James Mark, transferred to Edward Gostwyk Cory in August 1849.

[2] James Mark was infamous due to a campaign of slaughter he perpetrated on the local Aboriginal population in the late 1840s.

Mark then went on a killing spree, travelling through the district recruiting stockmen and landholders at other stations, forming a vigilante death squad to avenge his son.

Mark's actions were important in the New South Wales Government's decision to form a Native Police force in 1848 to operate in the northern districts of the colony.