History
- 400 million years ago: Sedimentary rock and fossils found in the Organ Pipes National Park indicates the area was once a sea.
- One million years ago: A flood basalt erupting lava, in some parts up to 70 metres deep, from surrounding volcanoes, creates the Keilor Plain.
- Maribyrnong River and its tributaries: Jacksons Creek and Deep Creek create deep valleys in the basaltic plain.
- About 40,000 years ago: first signs of possible human habitation along the river. The Keilor Cranium and femur of an aboriginal person, found in 1940 in a sand bank, has been carbon dated at about 12,000 years. The area is home to the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation.
- Late 1830s Europeans first settled the area, and used the fertile river valley as stock runs. They often drove stock around the brim of the bank, thus the park's name, Brimbank.
- 1880s land used for dairy farms and apricot orchards.
- 1975 Parks Victoria started operating the adjacent Horshoe Bend 26 acre (10.5 hectare) farm.
- 1976 Brimbank Park opened by Parks Victoria.
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