positioned within the boundaries of the early Dugandan property. Following the introduction of the Crown Lands Alienation Act of 1868 and the subdivision of the large pastoral runs, the settlement fell within the boundaries of a new 320 acre property acquired by John Hooper in 1878. Due to the scattered distribution of European settlers, the close proximity of the two settlements that would eventually become the townships of Dugandan and Boonah and the lack of a clear geographical centre, during the 1870s - 1880s the names Dugandan, Blumbergville and Boonah were used interchangeably. As late as 1888, the courts of petty sessions were described as occurring at "Boonah, otherwise known as Blumbergville". The Dugandan Provisional School opened on 15 July 1878 between Dugandan Scrub and Dugandan Flats next to the Teviot Brook on land which would eventually fall within the boundaries of the Blumbergville/Boonah township. The school was the first building in the township. On 30 May 1887 it became Dugandan State School. In 1895 it was renamed Boonah State School. (A separate Dugandan State School operated between 1917 and 1966 in Dugandan).By 1880, 40 families were living in the Dugandan Scrub area and Blumbergville was starting to be established. Blumbergville took its name from a store owned by three brothers, Max, Levi and Adolf Blumberg, located on the later site of the Commercial Hotel in High Street, Boonah. The Fassifern railway line (Queensland's first branch railway line) opened from Ipswich to Harrisville on 10 July 1882. On 12 September 1887 the line was extended to Dugundan with Boonah being served by Boonah railway station in Yeates Street (). The line closed in June 1964. There is a memorial to the railway line in Yeates Street at the back of the Commercial Hotel (). The town takes its name from the railway station and is an Aboriginal word referring ether to the Bloodwood tree (Eucalyptus Corymbosa) or the Brigalow tree (Acacia harpadhylla). In 1882, the Primitive Methodist Church congregation had grown too large to continue to use the Provisional School. Thomas Hardcastle donated of land for a church on Old Mount Alford Road near the former Dugandan Bridge. There was a ceremonial cutting of the first sod on Saturday 23 December 1882 by Miss Jessie Hardcastle. The church was and built by George Beverley and T. Austin. It was officially opened on 4 November 1883. In 1892 concerns about flooding