In the Garden of Eden [Macquarie Park] Traditional Cache

🛰 In the Garden of Eden
[Macquarie Park] 🌈

Eden Park in North Ryde used to be situated on this site, near the corner of Lane Cove and Talavera roads. Today, a small garden exists within the commercial buildings, built up around the natural waterway cutting across the park.

Acknowledgement of Country

We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the Land on which this cache is located, the Wallamattagal People of the Darug Nation, and their continuing connection to Country and community. We pay our respect to Elders past, present and emerging.

Their land stretches from the north shore of the Parramatta River, including the City of Ryde and Municipality of Hunters Hill, from the intersection of the Lane Cove River and west to Parramatta.

We recognise the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as the First Australians and we are committed to honouring their unique cultural and spiritual relationships to the land, waters and seas, and their rich contribution to society.

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Please help clean up some litter while you're here visiting this cache and attach a photo to your log to show off your much appreciated efforts!

Finding this Geocache

The cache is located at a busy site, especially during business hours. It is recommended to find this cache after hours and on weekends, if possible. Either way, stealth is always required.

Please replace cache exactly as found, to prevent it from being muggled/vandalised.

BYO (Bring Your Own) pen.

FTF honours: Goughy2012

About Eden Park

Around 1920, a religious community, the House of David, moved their Australian headquarters to 20 acres (8 hectares) of land situated northeast of the corner of Lane Cove and Waterloo Roads. The House of David was started in Michigan, USA, in 1903 and the name was most likely based on its 'Springs of Eden Park' in Michigan, which was a popular vacation spot with an amusement park, a zoo and miniature train ride.

During the early years at its new headquarters in North Ryde, the House of David operated a sawmill and cleared the land for market gardens and a poultry farm. In the 1930's their timber business closed and the property was opened to the public as the Eden Park Picnic Grounds. The grounds included a shop, for selling produce from the farm to the picnickers, a small native zoo, tennis courts and a music bowl for concerts. The Eden Park Picnic Grounds survived up until the 1960's when the district's increasing commercial expansion resulted in the land being developed into shops, showrooms and an industrial park. A Volkswagen car assembly plant was also built behind the House of David in Waterloo Road, before the plant was relocated to Mexico. Eden Park remained as a public park on the corner of Lane Cove and Talavera roads, until the commercial buildings were erected on the site.

(Sources and further reading:Ryde District Historical Society and Wikipedia).

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