Reports from as early as 1879 cite the Curraweena Hotel, also sometimes called ‘Yellow Water Holes’. A significant pastoral operation existed nearby with stone buildings, cisterns and drainage, including a rare stone shearing shed. A number of deaths were also reported, indicating the hard times in the bush, such as;
DEATH IN THE BUSH.
Ballarat Star, 15th November 1882
SYDNEY, Monday.
The body of Mr Wm. Wallace, late of Pangee Station, Cobar district, recently stock and station agent, Nymagee, has been found near Curraweena Hotel, 75 miles from Cobar, on the Bourke Road. The deceased had been drinking hard for some time past, and being a principal witness in a horse-stealing case, and having failed to put in an appearance at the late Bourke Sessions, a warrant had been issued for his apprehension. In attempting to evade a party of police, whom he erroneously supposed to be in pursuit of him, he fled into the bush. The trackers found his body on Thursday last, within 300 yards of the Curraweena Hotel. He had apparently been dead for seven days. At the magisterial enquiry which was held it was found that the deceased had died from the effects of drink.
-Argus telegram”