the post office in the area opened on 1 september 1884, and moved to the township on the railway survey line on 1 november 1889, the existing office being renamed glentress. the railway arrived in 1891, and the now heritage listed railway station was built in 1908.korumburra owed its early prosperity to coal mining; 2,000,000 tonnes of coal were produced by the korumburra coalfields from 1893 to 1962.