Roaming in Roma Traditional Cache
jpgordo: We have replaced this cache so many times we have decided to ARCHIVE it and not replace. Every School holidays it seems to disappear.
It was a very popular cache. Apologies to cachers who are looking for Roaming in ROMA.
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CAPITAL OF THE WESTERN DOWNS
Originally home to the Mandandanji Aboriginal people and visited twice by explorer Ludwig Leichhardt, Roma was settled after Sir Thomas Mitchell reported glowingly on the country in 1846. Looking down from nearby Mount Abundance, Mitchell wrote, “I … beheld the finest country I had ever seen in a primeval state – a champaign (meaning ‘undulating country’ in archaic French dialect) region, spotted with wood, stretching as far as human vision or even the telescope would reach.”
The Queensland Government established Roma as an administrative centre for the growing district in 1862. The town took its name from the wife of Queensland’s first Governor, the Countess Diamantina Roma, and was the first gazetted settlement following Queensland’s separation from New South Wales in 1859.
The first mention of bore gas was the discovery in 1900 of natural gas at Hospital Hill, one of several small wells later developed in the Surat - Bowen basin.
Visitors to Roma will also quickly become aware of the numerous bottle trees growing in town. Hero’s Avenue consists of more than 100 bottle trees - each representing a local soldier who lost his life in the great war of 1914/1918. A plaque at the base of each tree holds the name of the soldier that the tree is dedicated to.
Roma has preserved many of its impressive public buildings including the Roma Court House, opened in 1901. The original Court House opened in 1873, for the trial of the notorious bushranger Harry Redford (the legendary Captain Starlight) who had stolen 1,000 cattle and driven them to South Australia. This amazing feat was later immortalized in the novel “Robbery Under Arms”.
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