Simplify the following text for a Grade 4 native English-speaking person.
Original: The town was established in the 1860s on the site of the station where the route for travellers to the Lachlan gold fields crossed the Mandagery Creek .
Simplified: The town was started in the 1860s on the site of the farm . This was where the track for people going to the Lachlan gold fields crossed the Mandagery Creek .