What is the history of the Woods Point?
William Gooley discovered gold at Woods Point in 1861 , and for his trouble they named a local creek after him. In 1864 Gooley and his partner Colin McDougall carted in over many arduous months, a stamp battery to crush the rock and process the gold. Other prospectors soon followed, including a storekeeper by the name of Wood who set up business on the largest point of the spur. As the town was built around it, the site became known as Woods Point. By 1865 Woods Point was thriving with the local gold rushes and had its very own Mayor called Paddy Perkins. Perkins set up several pubs and a small brewery in the area but later followed the gold, the miners and the beer to Castlemaine and Toowoomba, where he’s credited with his brother Thomas, as the founder of Castlemaine Perkins Brewery and ultimately XXXX.
