GC3RQR3 Where Eagles Dare - Back To The Future (Traditional Cache) in Queensland, Australia created by J 'N' K

This cache has been archived.

J 'N' K: Looks like this has gone missing with the new developments in the area sadly we so will have to archive.

GC3RQR3 ▼

A cache by J 'N' K Message this owner

Hidden : 8/2/2012

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Size: Size: micro (micro)

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The fourth in this series... The cache is a Bison tube containing a log book only. Please bring your own pen.

Have a seat! Ahead of you is the expansive industrial area of Eagle Farm. At your back is the changing face of this area. Please replace the cache as you find it and out of view from all directions.

Eagle Farm first appeared as a name in 1839, identifying a cultivation area in convict era Brisbane. Presumably, the name was derived from the presence of wedge-tailed eagles in the area. The Eagle Farm Women’s Prison and Factory, a Queensland Heritage registered site since 1990, was opened in 1829 in an attempt to separate male and female prisoners and, by 1836, was home to 40 female convicts.

Despite additional fortifications, rendezvous between prisoners still occurred and by July 1839 the prison was closed. In the 1850s, displaced Aborigines from Bribie Island, the Redcliffe peninsula and Wide Bay set up camps in the Breakfast Creek/Eagle Farm area2002. Today Eagle Farm is an industrial area and home to both large and small organisations from Technology to Warehousing and eveything in between.