sentences:  Traditionally a rural area, producing beef, sugar, sorghum and other grains, coal mining is now a major employer, with eight coal mines in the area and capacity for a further five.The area was first explored by Europeans when Ludwig Leichhardt came in 1845, and was named Nebo by William Landsborough in 1856.On 11 November 1879, the Broadsound Division was established as one of 74 divisions around Queensland under the "Divisional Boards Act 1879".