STOTT'S PADDOCK

The area now known as Billy Dunn Park was originally known as Stotts Paddock.

Thelma Jackson used to take the house cow down to the paddock after school during the 1920s.

View of Stotts paddock from the newly built public school, circa 1960
Source: Ailsa Campbell

View of Stotts paddock from the newly built public school, circa 1960
Source: Ailsa Campbell

View of Stotts paddock from the newly built public school, circa 1960
Source: Ailsa Campbell

View of Stotts paddock from the newly built public school, circa 1960s
Source: Ailsa Campbell

The Stott families planted a Chinese Elm tree and placed a plaque on a rock. The plaque reads: 

This site was farmed by John and Sarah Ann Stott, early settlers in Gulgong, circa 1858, then became a sporting field known as Stott's Paddock.

Plaque

Stott Families planting a Chinese Elm

The Chinese Elm