In a letter dated 12 October 1842, to W. Kirchner of Sydney, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Leichhardt describes a walk through the valley on his way from Newcastle to Redhead via Charlestown.

This township is not to be confused with a proposed village "Kahibah" approved by the Surveyor-General Office in 1865 which was to be located on the northern side of the entrance of Lake Macquarie where the suburbs of Pelican and Blacksmiths now exist.

These honour rolls now reside in the Kahibah Public School Memorial Hall.

Over the life of the hall it served as a school, picture theatre, library, play group (last meeting December 1995).

The first 25 km of the walk from Newcastle to Teralba, Lake Macquarie is known as the Yuelarbah Track.