Bintamilling Pool

Statement of Significance

The pool is important for its association with the development of the pastoral industry and
also for its association with pioneering families.

It is also important for its association with the building of the Great Southern Railway and
the consequent siting of a railway siding in the vicinity.

Physical Description

One of a series of permanent pools in the Boyerine Creek which flows north from the
Moojebing/Marracoonda area into Norring Lake. From the north the most significant of
the pools are the Dolapin, Noomberring, Boyerine, Bintamilling, Ngeatalling and Round
Pools.

History

The pool provided fresh water for early pastoralists, shepherds and their flocks of sheep.
They were also a source of water for sandalwood cutters and carters in the early days of
European settlement. The Quartermaine family had from the mid 1860's held huge
pastoral leases on the Boyerine Creek. Extending northwards from their base at
Yowangup, some 65,000 acres were held in this manner up to William Andrews' holding
around Norring Lake. In 1868 Elijah Quartermaine (Junior) took the northern leases over
in his own right and after freeholding land at his home at Boyamine secured permanency
at the creek pools by buying 40 acre blocks surrounding Boyerine Pool (1873),
Ngeatalling Pool (1878) and Dolapin Pool (1879).

When Tom Haddleton sought 40 acres of freehold at Bintamilling Pool in 1880, he had to
receive permission before he could get both sides of the pool included. HS Ranford, the
Government surveyor, writing on behalf of Haddleton, explained that the pool was not a
permanent supply and that Haddleton wanted it for the special purpose of constructing a
washpool for use in winter and would require both sides of the gully (Boyerine Creek) for
that purpose. Sheep would be brought back from the Blackwood River to be washed
prior to shearing.

Uses

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