When I first moved to the Campbelltown area St. Andrews is where I lived. Now I live in Kearns, and still have fond memories of my first house & suburb.
Over the past few years I have been getting into doing all sorts of puzzles and thought I would pass one of them on to the Geo-Caching Community.
This puzzle is difficult but not that difficult.
To start you off, visit the given co-ordinates, go for a walk in the park, there is a nice view to be had, do the short calculation, then work out the puzzle.
Find below the JPEG file to print out the puzzle, it's called:
Print this to fill out "The St. Andrews Puzzle".
The cache is not at the given co-ordinates.
Please bring a pen for the signing thing.
Now for some history.
St Andrews was chosen because the western extent of the new suburb stood on the old St Andrews property of Andrew Thompson, one of the most prominent citizens of the early colony.
Thompson was transported to NSW as a convict in 1792 for burglary. On his arrival he was ironically made a constable on the Hawkesbury River and won a pardon. During the floods of 1806 and 1809 he personally saved over 100 lives and drew high praise from Governors King and Bligh.
By the time he was 37 years old, the canny Scotsman owned extensive land, stock, ship and business interests. From 1809, he developed a close friendship with fellow Scotsman, governor Lachlan Macquarie, and named his St Andrews farm after the patron saint of their home country.
When Thompson died in 1810 (due to health problems caused by the flood rescues), he had bequeathed a quarter of his estate to Macquarie. (although of high rank the governor was not a wealthy man)
Macquarie later visited St Andrews to inspect his sizeable inheritance, noting its fine rich soils, farmhouse, and paddocks stocked with sheep and cattle.
Given this tartan-clad history, Campbelltown council decided in 1976 to name all streets in the suburb after Scottish place names.
This theme also satisfied a long-held ambition of Council. As early as February 1964, aldermen had supported the notion of naming roads in "some future suburb" after Scottish locations. This was to honour a Highland township which Council had been forging close links with - the Burgh of Campbelltown.
Stan Thomson Park recalls a member of the family that ran the St Andrews dairy farm early this century. Born in 1906, Stan served as an alderman in the early sixties and died in July 1988.
The above information taken from: "Campbelltown's Streets and Suburbs - How and why they got their names" written by Jeff McGill, Verlie Fowler and Keith Richardson, 1995, published by Campbelltown and Airds Historical Society.
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