It includes the Woodside Barracks (16th Air Land Regiment), South Australia, although there are also some other residents and businesses in Inverbrackie.

The area was first explored by Europeans in January 1838 when Dr George Imlay and John Hill passed through while making the first crossing of the Central Mount Lofty Ranges.

Dairy produce and pastoralism have long been mainstays of the economy, as well as limited grain and market garden cropping.

Positioned as a stop-over for people travelling to Adelaide, the township originally consisted of a single church, a pub and a number of small houses.

In the post war period the base has been home to a number of regular Army infantry units but since 1981 has only been occupied by the 16th Air Defence Regiment.