For Whom the Bells Toll. Multi-Cache
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Once you find the container at the listed co-ordinates - you will find the co-ords for GZ. Please leave this information in the container for the next finder. The cache at GZ is a nano. Please supply your own biro/pencil. This is a very easy multi designed to show some of the history of Ravenswood without taking up time with difficult puzzles.
Enjoy much of the history at the Courthouse Museum and the Craft Display and admire the old St. Patrick's Catholic Church which is now a Community Church.
The highlight of the town is the superb Imperial Hotel, a flamboyant Edwardian building (1902) with multicoloured brickwork, superb balconies and a delightful Edwardian interior. It is said that at one time there was a miner set himself up next door to the pub and proceeded to blast his way into the ground with the hotel shaking on its foundations every time he detonated another explosion.
Other buildings sighted as being of particular interest are the front stairway of Brownes Hotel which is just over the road from Thorps Building in Macrossan Street.
At the Charters Towers end of the main street there are the ruins of the Mabel Mill which once boasted 30 stamper heads. To the south of the town there are no fewer than six chimney stacks. In Raven Street there are the ruins (no more than the front stairs) of A. L. Wilson's house and behind the Imperial Hotel is St Patrick's Church which has been converted from a Catholic Church into an interdenominational community church to serve the town's small population. The Railway Hotel (1902) has recently been restored and the School (1870s) is still in use.
By any measure Ravenswood is a fascinating town. It is a ghost town to keep the average visitor busy for hours and hours. The mullock heaps, the old shafts, the chimneys, and the old buildings make it an informative journey into the past.
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