The stream known as Stawell River or Cambridge Creek flows through from east to west.

[4] On 14 September 1881, Sub-inspector Henry Pollock Kaye of the Native Mounted Police, was responding to complaints from at the Woolgar gold fields townspeople of the First Nations persons stealing and other offences.

Within fifteen minutes of Sub-inspector Nichols leaving to get other officers, Kaye was fatally speared by the persons.

[8] The Woolgar Valley Aboriginal Corporation had previously purchased Middle Park Station, 'to provide opportunities for the traditional owners of that area, the Woolgar people, who mostly live in Yarrabah, Hopevale and Townsville'.

The corporation was successful in legal action for compensation payable for renewal of a mining lease.