Well Wishes Traditional Cache
Buggerme: Archiving until further notice
Team Buggerme
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CAUTION: Main road right next to parking area. Watch Geokiddies carefully at parking area. The safest approach is travelling uphill and care is recommended when leaving small parking area.
This is an evocative relic of nineteenth century transport, when it would have provided refreshment to man and beast on slow overland journeys on the poor roads of the time. A good place to stop for a short break.
History:
The road over Cherry Tree Hill was formed in its present location in 1848, having formerly used a number of other routes. There are no written primary sources for the date of the site. Oral history is that it was first built in about 1848, using a soak beside the road, by James Minehan, who held Portion 67, Parish of Hearne, nearby. It is thought that it was enlarged in 1879 by G Harris under the instruction of Ernest Nardin, inspector of roads. In 1939 Rylstone Shire Council sealed the road, and at that stage an arch was added by Mr Harry Slapp, a council worker. The stone came from a dilapidated building at Ilford. By then, if not before, it was known as the wishing well. A later deviation took that portion of road out of use. In 1988 a new parking area and walking track to the area was built for tourist visitation as a bicentennial project.
Description:
It is a small rectangular stone basin which dams a soak in a side cutting of the original road alignment. The front wall originally rose about 1m from ground level, but the ground in front of it has been filled almost to the lip. The 1939 embellishments consist of a semicircular sandstone arch engraved 1939 supporting a small portion of random coursed stone wall. Above this is the roughly laid stone fill of the later road realignment, which was constricted at this point to avoid burying the site. About 300m of the original road alignment is visible nearby and part of this has been made into a walking track giving access to the area.
Info thanks to heritage.gov.au website.
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