Threlkeld Traditional Cache
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Threlkeld Reserve is named after the man who started it all in this
area, the Reverend Lancelot Threlkeld. The cache is a small micro
BYO pen.
The History of Coal Point A grant of 1280 acres (Awaba Parish) was
promised to the Rev. Threlkeld in 1829. This grant included all
present day Toronto and Coal Point. Ralph Mayer Robey bought this
property on 30 December 1844 and received his deeds on 28 February
1846. By 1851 Robey had leased the area to Richard Fennell and in
about 1870 two partners MacMahon and Whiting had possession. In
1841 Rev. Threlkeld, having given up his aboriginal mission, began
to mine coal at the Ebenezer pit on the S.W. side of Coal Point at
the present Threlkeld Reserve. The mine was worked without
machinery and the skips were run on wooden rails, the coal loaded
into schooners from a wooden jetty. Mining operations were
restricted owing to the shallow channel at Swansea and at first the
coal was taken to Reid's Mistake by barge and transhipped to larger
vessels. Then Threlkeld obtained shallow-draught schooners. His
mine was legal as his promised grant pre-dated the A.A. Co.'s
monopoly but he had difficulty in attracting miners as the
government refused to supply convicts and the A.A. Co. sought to
stifle competition. By 1844 Threlkeld's Estate was severely
encumbered by debt and was sold at auction to the mortagee. The
mine was worked under lease by Henry R. Whittell and later by R.M.
Robey, although it was often idle. It was worked as South Hetton
Colliery as late as 1906. The explorer Ludwig Leichhardt visited
the mine in 1842.
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(Decrypt)
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