Cooranbong Bridge Traditional Cache
tiddalik: I am regretfully archiving this cache since there's been no response from nor action by the cache owner within the time frame requested in the last reviewer note.
tiddalik
Community Volunteer Reviewer
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This cache is located near the Cooranbong bridge. Cache is a honey bucket. Please replace cache well hidden. BYO writing device.
‘Cooranbong’ is from an Aboriginal word meaning rocky bottom creek or water over rocks. The name was officially adopted with the opening of the Cooranbong Post
office in 1866.
Cooranbong was an important river port with up to ten ships trading here regularly for timber and agricultural produce. The town had a courthouse, shops, hotels and a ship yard. When the northern railway was coming, it was expected to pass through Cooranbong with a branch line to Newcastle and the main line to pass under the Gap as it went further north. The town’s people saw the town as the administration centre of the south. But the line was eventually built through Morisset and over Dora Creek. This prevented the sailing ships from coming up the river and Cooranbong rapidly went into decline dropping the population from 700 to less than 200 in five years. About that time the Adventists arrived and moved the town a mile to the east where the town center is today.
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Sbyybj gur jbbqra srapr. Fyvtug ohfu onfuvat erdhverq. Ng gur onfr bs n pyhfgre bs gerrf.