Queensland State Archives posted a photo:
Herberton is an unusual town which is set on a ridge of the rolling hills of the Atherton Tablelands. Historically it was a tin town with both a mine and a smelter nearby. The explorer A. C. Gregory named the local river, the Herbert River, after Sir Robert Herbert, the first premier of Queensland.
The town came into existence in 1880 when a party of prospectors led by Willie Jack and John Newell discovered tin in the area. They named the settlement Herberton because it was at the headwaters of the Herbert River. In 1882 they established a store in Herberton under the banner of ‘General Merchants and Forwarding and Shipping Agents’ and over the next decade they became the most successful merchants in the area.
The discovery of tin at Herberton was largely responsible for the development of the other towns on the Atherton Tablelands.