Mrs Moss published a picture book last year informing people of all ages about the history of the Luggate creek.
The book was made possible with grants from the Upper Clutha Arts Council, the Elsie and Ray Armstrong Charitable Trust and Upper Clutha Transport, which allowed Ms Moss to use the profits from the book and help create the new information board.
Mrs Moss said it was important for people to "understand local history".
She felt there needed to be something helping people visualise not only the history, but the importance of the creek to the Upper Clutha ecosystem.
The information board stands prominently before the creek, to the right of the iconic Luggate horse and trailer statues.
It is also being funded by the Luggate Community Association, with the help of Queenstown Lakes District Council parks and recreation team’s Diana Manson.
The board contains facts about the creek and illustrations by Kerry Perkins telling a story that dates back 20million years.
"Before the Ice Age, we had the ancient lake that covered all of Central Otago and that was a subtropical lake with crocodiles and turtles," Mrs Moss explained.
After the ice age, the glaciers eventually melted, creating the present landscapes.
Māori tribes used the creek later, primarily for food sourcing, but the arrival of European settlers in the late 1800s marked the beginning of gold mining along the Pisa Range, most of the gold being alluvial.
"After finding the gold, because they needed water for sluicing, they eventually put in some water race which they took from the Luggate Creek," Mrs Moss said.
The story of the formation of the creek as it is known today seems to have been a rich yet largely unknown history until now.
"Children and families are interested," Mrs Moss said, pointing out the benefits of informing both residents and visitors coming through Luggate.
