Uncle Bobs Traditional Cache
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Uncle Bobs is located at a shack that has been in my family for over 80 Years. If there are any holiday makers staying at the shack they are all OK with goecaching.
You could wave or just pretend they are not there.
This area is called Middletons after the creek. The stone house on the corner was an old pub as this crossing was the road from Fryerstown to Glenlyon. Also a camp in the mining days around 1856, at one stage reaching over a thousand prospectors. There is still a little gold in the creek and any weekend one could find a group of prospectors panning in the creek.
The old ruins where built by a Father and Son prospector; at first just one room, but as the Son became older, he wanted his own hut and the best way was to use the chimney for both rooms. So as you can see today they are back to back.
HISTORY Report (quote).
11 Jan 1856 A serious disturbance occurred some months past. A party of Italians who had gained a reputation for their orderly and respectable conduct, had succeeded in lighting (raiding ) on several claims of a remunerative character. Their success excited a mob of Irishmen, by whom the claims were rushed and this is how the disturbance started
18 Jan 1856 The latest rush, which is creating quite a furore here, is at Middleton's Creek at the top of Sailor's Gully, in the direction of the Jim Crow Ranges, of which these diggings are essentially a continuation. Several stores are erected there. The digging is alluvial; in long, narrow gullies. The chief drawback is the absence of water, Middleton's Creek, which is nearest to the present spot, being nearly a mile distant. About one thousand persons are already busy there. The claim there, which occasioned the recent dispute between the Irish and Italians, is believed to have washed out from one ounce to seven ounces to the tub.
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