Dooen Pioniers Multi-Cache
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Fairly easy area to get to for the start you are looking for a monument on the corner. From this location you will have a short Drive to the final location.
CARTER, CHARLES (1797-1875), pastoralist, was born on 1 May 1797 in Cambridge, England, son of Charles Carter, farmer, and his wife, née Barrett. He migrated to Van Diemen's Land, where on 29 March 1829 he married Thomasina Matthews (1799-1889) who was born at Marazion, Cornwall; they had three sons and three daughters.
After managing a farm at Constitution Hill Carter embarked in 1838 with his family in the Black Squall for Port Phillip, where Superintendent Charles La Trobe later appointed him to make a road to Sandridge (Port Melbourne) and build a breakwater across the Yarra River. He witnessed the riot of two thousand road workers which William Lonsdale suppressed by reading the Riot Act and reducing wages. In May 1842 he and his family left Melbourne on a nine-week journey with the overlander James Monckton Darlot and his party to drive four hundred cattle and two bullock teams to the unsettled west. By the Wimmera River on 10 August Darlot established the Brighton (Dooen) run of 102,000 acres (41,278 ha). Carter, who managed the station, explored the river with Henry Darlot as far as Lake Hindmarsh. In October 1845 Carter took up his own cattle run at Brim Springs and later stocked it with sheep. Till 1874 he held this station, and also Rosebrook and Wartook, both of which he bought in 1858 with his sons Samuel, William James and John Charles. Short and rotund in appearance, dour and practical in manner, Carter successfully faced hostile Aboriginals, bushrangers, droughts and bush fires as a pioneer Wimmera settler. He was an Anglican and died on 8 October 1875 at Rosebrook station.
Now to the coords for the final location
S36 39.ABC; E142 15.DEF
A = the third number in the year that Darlot took the land
B = how many times the letter X appear on the top section of the plaque
C = A - D
D = E - A
E = how many times the O appears on the top half of the Monument
F = how many times the A appears on the top half of the Monument
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
n arne fgbc