The Tivoli area had been subdivided and sold as farmland in 1861–63, and the observant purchasers went in for coal mining.

[9] The church hall was used as a school room for children and adults (night classes) from 1 July 1875.

Next to the school in Mount Crosby Road the family of John Wright, proprietor of the Eclipse mine, built three houses on large allotments.

The grandest, Oaklands is the central one; all have spacious gardens and are listed on the Queensland Heritage Register.

In another direction, a tramway was opened from the Tivoli mines to the pumping station at the Mount Crosby weir, transporting coal from 1913 until about 1932.

After lying idle for several years the Abermain Colliery was used for sewerage treatment.

A short distance south there is the Abermain electricity substation which was enlarged in 2009.