In 1894 the station's
shearing shed was burned down along with seven others in the district as part of a protest by
shearers over wages. The Macpherson family owned the station in the 1890s and early 1900s. Samuel Hoffmeister, who was implicated in these events was later found dead at a nearby
billabong. The following year
Banjo Paterson visited the station and wrote the lyrics to "
Waltzing Matilda", said to be inspired by these incidents. The music for the song was arranged by
Christina Macpherson, the daughter of the owner of Dagworth and sister of the manager of the property Robert Macpherson. The station was bought by the
North Australian Pastoral Company in 1995. In March 2015,
Geoscience Australia reported that the
Diamantina River’s course at and near its headwaters flows along the edge of a roughly circular
crustal anomaly that might well be an
impact structure. It is 130 km in diameter, and Dagworth lies in its northeast quadrant. The
asteroid impact, if indeed this is the explanation for the anomaly, would have happened roughly 300 million years ago. ==See also==