It was covered in eucalyptus forests and home to native animals such as wallabies and possums that were hunted by the Cabrogal for meat, hides and bones.

When Governor Lachlan Macquarie established a town at nearby Liverpool in 1810, the surrounding areas were soon granted to British settlers who began clearing the forests for farmlands.

As well as the present-day suburb of Green Valley, it included what is now known as Ashcroft, Busby, Cartwright, Heckenberg, Miller, Sadleir, and parts of Hinchinbrook and Mount Pritchard.

Within a few years 7,464 cottages, flats, and units were built, and by 1966 over 24,000 people were living in an area that had been occupied by market gardeners, dairymen, and poultry farmers a decade earlier.

[1] Former Liverpool Mayor and local businessman, Frank Oliveri, who settled in Green Valley in the early 1950s with his family after migrating from southern Italy.

Eric Hall sold the main part of his land to Frank Oliveri which became the pit area of the Liverpool City Raceway.