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Osborne Park Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 6/8/2010
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:

Cache located in a public reserve in the streets near where Saulman1010 grew up and often made cubby houses out of materials “scrounged” from local building sites. Another example of my miss-spent youth.

Nearby Township of Mornington was developing quickly in the mid 1850’s, so plans were drawn up for a housing subdivision South of Mornington near the Township of Mount Martha. The subdivision was conceived as the” Village of Osborne” but the name never took off.
The Subdivision was based on the philosophy of urban design popular in the mid nineteen century. Named after Queen Victoria’s holiday estate in Osborne on the Isle of Wight, the streets bore names to honour the children of the royal family. Alice, Augusta, Ernest, Helena and Maude Streets still exist although Albert, Alfred and Albert Place were later renamed.
Original sale price of eight pounds an acre, or two pounds per block, the blocks were so promoted : “A walk about a mile towards Mount Martha affords the visitor varying change of scene and brings him to a fine esplanade extending for three miles to the pretty Village of Osborne”.

“In the late 1880’s there was a semaphore station on Osborne Park. It was one of the relay stations on high points around the bay that passed signals from the Heads to Melbourne, alerting traders to the arrival of ships” - Mt Martha Lands and People, Winty Calder.

The Cache is hidden in a mostly forgotten part of the area and remains a small, quiet and unregarded reserve but worthy of cache due to its original design concept.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)