Wintergreen Traditional Cache

This cache has been archived.

inspicio: One or more of the following has occurred:

No response from the cache owner.
No cache to find or log to sign.
It has been more than 28 days since the last owner note.

As a result I am archiving this cache to keep from continually showing up in search lists and to prevent it from blocking other cache placements.

If you wish to repair/replace/make available the cache sometime in the near future, just contact a reviewer (by email), and assuming it still meets the current

guidelines, the reviewer will be happy to unarchive it.

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Hidden : 6/13/2012
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:

A small cache containing log, pencil and assorted bits and pieces. Stealth may be required during busy periods and sporting fixtures.

Please be very careful if visiting at night - the lighting in the area is not fantastic, and occasionally there may be someone sleeping nearby.

Alexandria Park is between Buckland, Park and Wyndham Streets and Power Avenue, Alexandria. Almost all the area now known as Alexandria, Waterloo, Zetland and Rosebery was in the single ownership of Daniel Cooper for most of the nineteenth century. This site was originally sandhills, but was earmarked for industrial development when noxious industries were forced out of the city in 1860, and became known as the Southern Industrial Zone for over a century.

There was a sandhill here which was named Mount Horne after Alderman J.C. Horne who had campaigned for the reclamation of the area. This area was chosen for open space and was gazetted as a park in 1882 and the sand was removed. A cricket oval was built but the rest of the area was used as a municipal tip for thirteen years.

The first caretaker, P. Dawson of Wyndham Street, was appointed on a barter basis in 1895. He was given the sole right to graze his six cows on the park between the hours of 6 pm and 6 am, in exchange for keeping the park free of weeds and watering the newly-planted Moreton Bay and Port Jackson fig trees twice weekly during dry weather.

In response to popular demand a tennis court and club house were constructed in 1939 and a portion of the park was set aside for a playground. The playground was named after member for Redfern Bill McKell who was Premier of NSW in 1941-47 and Governor-General of Australia in 1947-51.

The story of Alexandria Park would not be complete without some reference to Alderman Richard Power, Mayor of Alexandria in 1932 and 1936. He lived in Wyndham Street and kept a close eye on the park and took great pride in it. The Richard Power memorial gates were erected in his memory at the south-eastern corner of the Park. Power Avenue is also named after him. The Park’s boundary rows of Port Jackson Figs date from the 1890s. Inter-war plantings include an avenue of London Plane trees, Lombardy Poplars and American Cottonwoods.

- City of Sydney website

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

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