page_title: Woodford, Queensland
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Woodford, Queensland / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Sketch of Durundur Station by Charles Archer, 31 July 1843
context_page_description: Woodford is a town and a locality in the Moreton Bay Region, Queensland, Australia.
  The town is noted for its folk festival that takes place over the New Year holidays.
context_section_description: Duungidjawu (also known as Kabi Kabi, Cabbee, Carbi, Gabi Gabi) is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken on Duungidjawu country. The Duungidjawu language region includes the landscape within the local government boundaries of Somerset Region and Moreton Bay Region, particularly the towns of Caboolture, Kilcoy, Woodford and Moore.
  Dalla (also known as Dalambara and Dallambara) is a language of the Upper Brisbane River catchment, notably the Conondale Range. Dalla is part of the Duungidjawu language region includes the landscape within the local government boundaries of the Somerset and Moreton Bay Regional Councils, particularly the towns of Caboolture, Kilcoy, Woodford and Moore.
  In 1841 the Archer brothers established Durundur station along the Stanley River, near where Woodford now stands.
  In 1877, 10,800 acres (4,400 ha) were resumed from the Durundur pastoral run and offered for selection on 19 April 1877.
  Mr W. Yates was the first to take possession of his selected portion of the country and he built a hotel near a ford across the river. The hotel, and the town which developed around it became known, unofficially, as Yatesville.
  The town was positioned on a hill closer to the Stanley River than the present day town. When the introduction of a regular mail service required the town to have an official name a meeting was called and 'McConnel' was decided on in honour of the senior partner of Durundur Station ‑ but the Postmaster General would not accept that name. Therefore, another meeting was called and those present called it 'Woodford' in honour of the junior partner, Mr H.C. Wood, and in recognition of the importance to the community of the ford across the river.
  Timber cutting is the town's main industry. Most of the timber sourced from the area is sent to a sawmill in Caboolture.
  Dairying is also a major industry. A co-operative dairy factory opened in the town in 1904.
  Woodford was a stop on the now-closed Kilcoy railway line. The line reached Woodford in 1909 and connected the town to the small regional centre of Caboolture. Most of the railway infrastructure was removed after the line closed in the mid-1960s, and much of the land has been sold.
  New housing subdivisions were established on Kropp Road and Ironbark Drive during 2010 and 2011. In addition, a Woolworths supermarket opened in the town in 2010.
  The Woodford Correctional Centre is on the outskirts of town.
caption: Sketch of Durundur Station by Charles Archer, 1843
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