Kerrie Traditional Cache
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Kerrie is a small town located in the Macedon Ranges region of Victoria, Australia. It features a town hall (1934) and a closed primary school (State School 1290). Near the hall are the former tennis courts, now overgrown and in a state of disrepair. On Cherokee Road there is a large house which was built by Germans, and is the biggest of its kind in the area.
The Kerrie Valley is the source of domestic water for the nearby town of Romsey. The catchment reservoir consists of a dam on a tributary of the Bolinda Creek.
Kerrie Post Office opened on 10 July 1891 and closed in 1949.
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The former Kerrie Primary School No. 1290 was opened as a non-vested Rural School known as the Railway Steam Saw Mills School in or before 1870. The Education Department took over the school in 1874 and purchased a new site on which was placed a portable timber school with quarters and a shingled roof. The new building was completed by March 1877. From 1879-81 the school was known as Mount Hope Saw Mills School but in 1891 its name was changed to Kerrie. The school is a single room weatherboard building with an entry porch added later. The configuration of windows and doors has been altered since construction and the weatherboard cladding is a later alteration. Internally the school has a timber floor, horizontal timber wall lining between main horizontal and vertical timber framing members and a coved ceiling. The site also includes a decagonal shed with a porch directly behind the school building. The decagon shed has vertical timber cladding and a gable porch with horizontal weatherboards and a finial. Both buildings have a corrugated galvanised iron roof. The Red Cedar and Douglas Fir trees which surround the school were planted after world war one, for every man who served in that war.
The former Kerrie Primary School No. 1290 is of historical and social importance as a reminder of the saw milling operations of the late nineteenth century in the area. When it was first opened in 1874 it was known as the Railway Steam Sawmills School. It is of social importance as it indicates the utilisation of public buildings in small country towns. The school was also used as the local Post Office, church and Sunday School and is once again being used as a community building. Kerrie Primary School demonstrates the early and common practice by the Education Department to use portable buildings, because of the ever changing nature of education and populations. The Red Cedar and Douglas Fir trees which surround the school and were planted after World War 1 for every man who served in that war, are an unusual example of a War memorial. Commemorative trees were usually planted as avenues.
The Cache is a 200ml Sistema which has evolved from the GA cache GA1276 which has been since archived.
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