Pioneering days of Miriam Vale and district', Queensland by W. G. Blomfield, 1946-1947 - Page 7
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about you going along a bit further. The Gwynne range in front of old GRENVALE was named after him. Since (?) the ROBERTSONS, must have already taken up TAUNTON or he would not have passed Greenvale & the ten mile. He went on & took up MIRIAM VALE & went on to GLADSTONE (45 miles) to meet his wife. She had come there by boat, & had heard about the aboriginals, & refused to go any further.
He had left his furniture at Rosedale (gave it to the Littles) & there were some chairs there a few years ago, still quite good.
CHAUVEL & TOLSON must have been the next tenants, 500 square miles in those days, ? Chauvel & Tolson, it was said to be named MIRIAM VALE after Chauvel's best girl, but she preferred a parson to a bushman. It sure is a vale, mountains nearly all round. They held it about two years, & then the Abos, the ones from the coast, swam across the big water hole 11/4 miles long (GOORON-JUM roots of water lily) & speared Tolson but did not kill him.
it was the usual trouble with the abos, & BOOLOO Tolson was the first 1/2 caste abo Miriam Vale.