[1] Gold was being mined at leases named Korong on the Mount Margaret goldfields in 1898.
The stations manager's wife, Mrs Williams, was the only one home when the fire started.
[5] The station manager, Mr Williams, was a shareholder in the pastoral company that owned Korong.
[6] By 1935 the property was running a flock of 12,000 sheep and shearing produced 250 bales of wool.
[7] Koorong, along with neighbouring Mount Crawford, was owned by Hugo Green in 1947; Green had acquired the property from the Mount Crawford Pastoral Company.