When the first railway section was built in the 1890s, William Clarke Cowie had chosen the location at the mouth of the Padas River as a seemingly suitable port for the shipping of natural rubber and tobacco.

[5] Thanks to the quick and decisive intervention of the British governor, Sir William Goode, the rebels in Sipitang and Weston were isolated and disarmed just two days later.

On 10 December, a total of 60 rebels were arrested in Weston and a large amount of weapons were confiscated.

The following buildings have been preserved from the time before the Second World War: According to population statistics from 2010, the city has 334 inhabitants, mostly Malays (72%).

Parts of the Padas River estuary are protected as Weston Wetland Park (WWP).