Bruce's Rock Traditional Cache
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420ml cliptop hidden under a couple of rocks.
The area was explored in 1836 by John Septimus Roe but like most of the wheatbelt it was not settled until after 1900 with land being released for agriculture in 1908. In the intervening years the only people in the area were pastoralists with large leaseholdings who grazed sheep and the occasional sandalwood cutter such as John Rufus Bruce.
Bruce Rock was gazetted in 1913. It was originally called Nunagin (Noonegin) but this name was easily confused with Nungarin and Narrogin so it was renamed after a low granite outcrop situated 2km east from the town in a nature reserve on the Bruce Rock East Road. The outcrop was named after a sandalwooder, John Rufus Bruce, who used the outcrop as his depot in 1869. Picnic facilities are available at the base of the outcrop. There are two old wells located at the picnic site at the foot of the rock (good example of the method used in stoning wells in the early 1900s by the Public Works Department). The important historic site is the rectangular shaped well not the rounded one.
The last Aboriginal Corroboree in this district is said to have been held at this site.
First Settlers?
Just up the rock from the picnic area, through the gate can be found a rock and plaque which says "Pioneers of Bruce Rock District . This plaque commemorates the selection of the Bruce Rock farm by Walter John Bulter, his wife Eleanor, their children Wal & Gwen and his brother Lindsay. 10-10-1910 First campsite 190 metres Sth. West"
The cache is hidden approx 190m Sth. :)
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