Toohey Forest Park

Toohey Forest Park contains remnant dry eucalyptus bushland of the type that once covered a large area of Brisbane before the advent of European settlement. The Park’s site was part of the cattle grazing property ‘Mount Galway’ that was the home of district pioneers, the Toohey family from 1872 to 1946. The Commonwealth acquired the first section of the park in 1919 for a proposed post World War 1 Soldiers Settlement. This proved unsuccessful but unemployed men and their families squatted in the undeveloped bush during the 1930s. During this decade, the Brisbane City Council bought more parts of ‘Mount Galway’. In 1946, the purchases were completed and the forest declared parkland.