It is located at the intersection of the roads south to Tamworth, east to Tenterfield and north-west to Boggabilla.

The area was once occupied by the Bigambul, a sub-group of the Murri Aboriginal people who used to fish along the Macintyre River.

[7] In applying for a post office the applicants claimed that the population was then about 100 but this was considered a considerable exaggeration.

The town has always been associated with beef cattle and horses, with the sheep, wool and timber industries developing only slightly later.

The thick rabbit and prickly-pear-ridden scrub of the brigalow and belah country was reclaimed from expiring leases in the 1920s and the back-breaking work of rendering it fit for agriculture did not bear fruit until the 1950s when wheat-growing became and remains a highly successful enterprise.