[1] The district is dominated by Lake Samsonvale, the waters of North Pine Dam, one of the three main water-suppliers to the metropolitan region.

After the school closed, local people raised funds and built a church using timber from the immediately surrounding area in 1884, which officially opened on Sunday 25 January 1885 by the Reverend A.

[12] Samsonvale was predominantly a dairy farming community centred on a station on the Dayboro railway line.

The flooding of the impoundment, Lake Samsonvale, also closed the Presbyterian Church, community hall, and post office.

[14] All that remains today at the site of the old village is a cemetery with much of the former district underwater, along with the original Samsonvale pastoral run.

[15][16] The current Samsonvale Rural Fire Brigade facility sits above what was once the centre of the Kobble Creek community.

[citation needed] In 2006, during a drought seeing water levels of Lake Samsonvale falling to unprecedented lows, archeological works were considered by the local council to preserve historic artifacts from flooded homesteads dating back to the 19th Century.

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