Frank Potts Reserve Traditional Cache
duncast: Bees are right on top of the stump the cache is hidden in, too dangerous.
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A popular camp site full of lush greenery on the side of the road. definately needed a cache to draw more people here, so here we go!
Frank Potts was one of the original settlers of South Australia, arriving with Governor Hindmarsh on HMS Buffalo in 1836. He had carpentry skills and a set of tools, so was much in demand constructing the first houses. In 1842 he moved to American River, Kangaroo Island, fishing, farming, harvesting salt and trading with Adelaide on Petrel. And while there, he built the larger ketch Kangaroo with John Buick, considered the "father" of American River. In 1846 he sold Petrel and returned to the mainland, living in the vicinity of Port Adelaide, and sold his Albert Town property in 1847. In 1849 Frank, with William Carter and George Mason, built a ferry for crossing the Murray at Wellington. In 1850 he purchased two sections of land totalling 217 acres straddling the River Bremer. He built a modest home and began growing wheat and built "Travellers' Rest", a public house for the benefit of travellers on the way to the gold diggings He built a bullock-powered sawmill and began clearing the 30 acres either side of the river for a vineyard and was the founder of Bleasdale winery at Langhorne Creek, South Australia, which has remained in the Potts family to the present day.
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