Johnston's Lookout Traditional Cache
Hidden : 7/14/2007
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
3.5 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

After the steep climb up here you will be looking for an ammo box.

Settlers requested the government to allocate a rich belt of scrub land along Kin Kin Creek for dairying at the turn of the 20th Century. Because there was no access road the request was denied. Determined, these pioneers advocated a light railway system from Cooran to Kin Kin but the Government Civil Engineer also rejected this plan after inspecting the proposed route through the rugged terrain.
Finally in 1904 after a public meeting with the Lands Department a road over the range, now the approximate location of the Pomona - Kin Kin road, was constructed following closely the bridle tracks which had been cut through the dense vegetation by earlier timber-getters.

Gangs of men and their families were involved in this project due to the existing unemployment problems in Queensland at this time. Once the road was built Queenslanders waited anxiously for the blocks of land to be opened for settlement by ballot.

Pastoral development was not for them however, or so the Lands Department had decided, because they reserved the blocks for interested settlers from other States, namely New South Wales.

Later a ministerial inquiry discontinued the Lands Department monopoly on ownership, allowing greater freedom for individual selection.

Some Queenslanders selected Kin Kin Junction in 1901, they were sons of James Nash. Turnbull was the first to occupy his land in 1902.

Situated below this lookout along Western Branch Road, near the intersection at Kin Kin - Pomona Road, Arthur Doyle constructed Kin Kin"s first sawmill. It milled the enormous Gympie Messmates flourishing along Western Branch Road. Doyle used a steam boiler to operate his sawmill. This mill closed by 1910.

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