The area where Woodridge now stands was set aside as a timber reserve when the first selections were being taken up in the 1870's. The township of Booran was surveyed in 1888, following the construction of
the railway. The current streets of Victoria, Smith, Bruce, Edward, Douglas, Plunkett and North indicate the position of the township. The name was later used as a local street name, for Booran Drive off Kingston Road. The Woodridge central area was a timber getting and milling business run by Dugald Graham. In 1913, it was bought by Octavius Stubbs who then subdivided the land, calling it "Woodridge Estate". The name Woodridge was eventually accepted by the Postmaster General who referred the place name to the Department of Public Lands in 1924. The area continued to grow and by 1958, the township boasted a post office, two grocers and a butcher shop.
Much of the development in the late 1960's was the result of the Queensland Housing Commission buying up large parcels of land to provide affordable housing in the outer metropolitan areas. In 1959, the Trinder family donated 230 acres of land to the Lutheran Church and ten years later the Trinder Park Home for the Aged was opened. The following decade saw a number of schools established in the area, followed by the Woodridge Tavern in 1973 and the K-Mart Shopping Centre in 1978. In August of 1986, Logan Central was gazetted as a place name and marked the administrative centre of Logan City. Comprising an area once within the boundaries of Woodridge and Kingston, it encompasses the Council Administration Centre and Library, the Logan Gardens, Logan Central Community Centre and the Logan Art Gallery.
