 Historically it achieved its significance in the construction of the Eastern Railway where a surveyed route of the railway encountered difficulties with the creek and creek bed.As a cutting was being constructed (near the bottom of Dalry Rd) clay was struck followed by an underground stream which flooded the clay and turned it into a bottomless bog.The locality earned the name in the Perth newspapers of the 1880s as "The Devil's Terror" and they cite the example of workers sinking in mud.