Pumpkin Point Creek

Reference: p 99

Pumpkin Point Creek rises at Canoelands Ridge and drains eastward to enter the Hawkesbury River at Pumpkin Point. Messrs Hourston, Griffith and Johns obtained land grants along the creek in 1831 but the creek is unnamed on the survey map of that same date. It would seem plausible that pumpkins were grown in the valley and that the creek was so-named.