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Bairnsdale Technical School (BTS) Gates Traditional Geocache

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gwd.aussie: Time to retire this cache, with too many more muggles around this area now days.

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Hidden : 12/27/2013
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

The story of Bairnsdale Technical School (BTS) & Davison oval gates

This cache is a nano so you will need to BYO pen

 



The building across the road on the west side of the caravan park is were our story starts..

 

The story of Bairnsdale Technical School (BTS) starts with it's predecessor the Bairnsdale School of Mines. Planning for the School of the Mines started in late 1880's with the first classes on 9 Feb 1890.

 

A Technical School was opened in conjunction with the school of mines in 1917

 

In 1959 the school acquired Dahlsen's paddock which were prepared into oval/playing

fields. The oval, named the T.H Davison oval was opened in December 1960.

 

By 1969 the limitation of the school site became all too apparent.

But it wasn't until 1978 when the first classes started at the new site on McKean Street

 

Sometime in the late 90s or early 2000 the amalgamation of the Bairnsdale Technical and High

Schools into the Bairnsdale Secondary College.

 

The old school of mines / Bairnsdale Technical School site was develop into a TAFE college.

 


FUN FACT

 

Also across the road was the original Bairnsdale cemetery, which was move in the 1870's following floods that washed some of the remains down the river.

 


 

This cache is a nano so you will need to BYO pen

 

Congratulations Debbie Does Caching & justjessie on joint FTF

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)