Lost Eden Traditional Cache
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The best way to see what I am bringing you here to see, is to come from the west.When you approach the cache site, if you look to your left a little you will see a tank that has been dug into the ground.The sides and floor is made of quarried limestone and motar to gronud level and the whole surface is cement rendered.
In 1869,Pastoralist Lesses constructed a water storage tank that was used by drovers from the nearby stock route ( to water their sheep).The stock route was originally a quarter mile wide but was eventually reduced to a three chain road when droving stock ceased,the three chain road that meets Hope Gap road at Highway One would encompass the highway,the railway reserve and the road on the other side.
In 1889 this water tank was dedicated as Water Reserve No2 for the Hundred of Barunga and was used for the supply of water for public use,mostly for stock use but some times for domestic(human) consumption.
Prior to 1910 a woman known locally as Granny Lyons lived with her husband in a small stone cottage west of the tank and maintained a garden and almond,lime and orange trees upstream from the tank.In the 1970's there were still a few almond trees left in the valley but alas no more.There was a good flow of water into the creek until the hill country was ploughed.
Eden is lost.
The tank is now on private land so DO NOT climb the fence to have a closer look.
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