Kingston was also the site of an environmental disaster similar to Love Canal in Niagara Falls in the United States.

[4] Dairying grew in importance in the area from the 1890s and in 1906 a meeting was held in Beenleigh to form a co-operative butter factory locally.

The Kingston Butter Factory was enlarged in 1932 and operated successfully until after the war, when the dairying industry was being rationalised by the government.

[5] The Kingston Butter Factory is on the Logan City Council Local Heritage Register for its historical, social and technological significance.

[6] In October 1885, 72 subdivided blocks of land named "Kingston Railway Station Estate" were advertised to be auctioned by John W Todd.

[7] A map advertising the auction shows that the blocks were close to Kingston Railway Station and a selling feature of the estate was the extensive and picturesque views.

[11] Its students come mainly from the residential suburbs of Kingston, Marsden, Browns Plains, Loganlea, and Woodridge.

When the mine closed in 1955, the Albert Shire Council started to allow used recycled oil processing wastes to be dumped into a sludge pit on the site; this practice continued until 1967.

In 1968 the council required the sludge pit to be filled as a condition of the land being divided for a residential subdivision.

In September 1986 residents, in the Diamond street area of Kingston, started to notice black sludge beginning to ooze from the ground and seep into their gardens and began to complain of health problems to the Logan Council.

[16] It took four years of fighting the council and local governments for the residents of Kingston to be vindicated when the Minister for Emergency Services, Terry Mackenroth, ordered a review of all scientific and medical evidence, offered full health tests for residents and announced the Wayne Goss government would rehabilitate the site and pay for families to be moved away.

[15] Eventually the state government resumed 46 properties and rehabilitated the area completing 1991, which is known as Kingston Park.

[16] The final medical report found no evidence of "a major toxic hazard" in Kingston but recognised the "stress on a number of residents because of the uncertainty".

Kingston residents finally could not prove that dumped toxic chemicals caused leukaemia or any other disease.

As of 2000, the total cost of this operation, including relocating infrastructure, the engineering required to seal the site and ongoing monitoring, was approximately $8 million.

[20] The graves of Charles and Harriett Kingston, after whom the suburb is named, are found in the cemetery,[21] while Mayes Cottage is one of the earliest surviving houses in the town.

[22] Kingston railway station provides access to regular Queensland Rail City network services to Brisbane and Beenleigh.