Lake Ninan Reserve

As early as the 1910s, Reverend Millward's boat was a popular vehicle for sailing on Lake Ninan. During 1910 and 1911, the water supply in the developing town of Wongan Hills was very short, and the lake's supply was used for the towns people and the railways to keep the steam trains running. Camels which were in the region doing survey work ahead of the railway construction, carted water from Lake Ninan. They were in service for five months carting water between Goomalling and Mullewa. The second annual picnic of the Progress Association, in 1912, was held at Lake Ninan.

In 1914, Reverend Strickson, a Baptist Minister from Northam, married JH Ackland and Miss Elsie Coomer, in the shade of the trees on the shore of Lake Ninan.

The Boy Scouts Association had a summer camp at the lake. During the 1960s, the Lake Ninan Water Ski Club was active.