McLeods Waterholes

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE:

The area if McLeod's Waterholes contains aboriginal oven mounds dating from between 3,000 and 5,0000 years before the present. The place which has been named after a district pioneer, supplied water for Drysdale in 1871 and water was diverted into the waterholes for this purpose. In the same year the lake was stocked with fish and two years later boxing Day races were held at the Waterholes racecourse. The area has mature exotic and native trees and it presently developed as a community recreation reserve with oval, tennis courts and netball facilities.

McLeod's Wateholes has aesthetic, historic, scientific and social value to the Drysdale Community.

The McLeod's Waterholes aprovides and environmentally pleasing sporting area for the community whilst preserving important Aboriginal sites and associations with early settlement water supply and recreational pursuits.

It is LOCAL cultural significance.

Wynd, I (1988) Balla-Wein, A History of the Shire of Bellarine p. 131

Ibid - P. 23, 25, 69 & 132.

Group

Utilities - Water

Category

Spring