 Broadford is built on the banks of Sunday Creek, a tributary of the Goulburn River.The traditional owners of Broadford are the Taungurong people, a part of the Kulin nation that inhabited a large portion of central Victoria including Port Phillip Bay and its surrounds.The first European occupier of the townsite of Broadford was Lt. Col. Henry White who was reported as being "of Mount Piper" in October 1838.