The Society was formed on January 28th, 2001 to raise awareness of the historical heritage of the Kurrajong region and to ensure that this history is preserved for future generations.

Ben Singleton's millstones (circa 1810) have been adopted as the Society's logo because they are the oldest European relic in "the Kurrajong" and because their chequered treatment - dumped in the creek (1860), retrieved and used as a war memorial (1920), discarded during road widening (1945), rescued (1958), forgotten, rescued again (1988) - is symbolic of how Kurrajong history has been treated.