New Era Traditional Cache
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This was waypoint Cosy21 during the Cosy Corner Caching weekend (the SA Geocachers annual gathering)in June 2008.
In the early 1890s the South Australian Government embarked on a scheme to resettle citizens, largely urban unemployed, into cooperative farming communities with the aim of providing a brighter future for those hard hit by the economic depression and to develope the inland, particularly new irrigation areas along the Murray River. In April 1894 twenty two families left Port Adelaide for a new life at the village of New Era.
Despite the good intentions of government and settlers many of these settlements fell short of achieving the utopian dream. Poor soils, disputes within the community, and the settler’s inexperience in irrigation and farming meant that New Era was among the first to fail. Less than two years after the settlement’s founding Commissioner McIntosh found a poor pumping plant, insufficient crops sown and no livestock. He recommended that the settlement be abandoned.
This is all that remains of the failed social experiment that was New Era.
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