The City of Hawkesbury is a local government area of New South Wales, Australia, part of which is at the fringe of the Sydney metropolitan area, about 50 kilometres (31 mi) north-west of the Sydney central business district. Hawkesbury City is named after the Hawkesbury River.
Population 66,134 (2015 Est.)
Area 2,776 km2
It was first settled by Europeans in 1794 in a bid to acquire arable land to feed the increasing population of the penal colony at Sydney. In April 1794, Lieutenant Governor Francis Grose submitted plans for the first 22 farms on the Hawkesbury River in the present Pitt Town Bottoms area. In June 1795 a camp of aborigines opposing the land takings was harassed by a British regiment commanded by Paterson (who later regretted the necessary injustice).
By 1811 Governor Lachlan Macquarie established the five Macquarie Towns in the area. They are Windsor, Richmond, Castlereagh, Wilberforce and Pitt Town. Many of the early 19th century buildings still survive today. Ebenezer has the oldest surviving church and school building in Australia. Windsor District Council was formed in 1843 and disbanded in 1846. In 1871 the Borough Council of Windsor was founded and the Richmond Borough Council followed in 1872. The two Councils amalgamated in 1949 to become Windsor Municipal Council. Colo Shire Council was established in 1906 and joined Windsor Municipal Council in 1981 to become Hawkesbury Shire Council. In 1989, Hawkesbury became a City.
Caching in the Hawkesbury includes history of the area with On the trail of Macquarie GC6YXBY which takes you to significant areas frequented by Governor Macquarie & Francis Greenway.
The earliest cache hidden in the Hawkesbury was on 25 May 2001 by a multi A Wise Man's Folly GCA78 which has since been archived, it was found once in 9 months. It was soon followed by Team Chaos with Delicate Sound of Thunder GC27EC in November 2001. Then in 2002/3 a number of cachers started hiding caches in the area. On 8 May 2002 one of the strangest caches was placed, by The 2 Dogs, at this time #52 The Furphy GC55CC. In December 2002 a Reverse cache was loaded into the system called First Fleet GCB69C where Swampgecko was trying to find how many items were still around that related to the First Fleet, not having lots of cachers around at the time & limited to one per caching team it lasted about a year before it was archived.
Now Hawkesbury district has currently Traditional, Multi, Puzzle, Letterbox, Wherigo, an Earthcache & roughly monthly Events & CITOs at Charles Kemp Reserve pulling out invasive weeds.
This now leads to this cache to find it you will need to solve the following:
The cache can be found at Southing Ao B.C Easting Do E.F where:
A = (Gen Barnard Bee CSA KIA × (Wood 2nd Bloodwood - Bus stop 7 Kurmond)) ÷ lest we forget
B = W2W Prince of Wales - BIRDS Laughing Kookaburra + Mitchell Park Heights + I Love Port II
C = Charles Kemp Reserve Bushcare CITO Event - Rusty Richard + Tizzana + The Hamlet (1940) - The Wisdom of Solomon? + home away from home
D = Snapshot + The Regent's Park Mystery Cache
E = (Cayley × (An Offroad Adventure #1 + What is EucFACE?))^ (Off The Wagon/(Wood 1st Woodlands Park + Jub Jub))
F = First Fleet + Diamond Hill - AO#1 Kecksburg + Reverse + On the trail of Macquarie - Green Hills and Beyond + Hidden History 5, Obelisk + Upper Colo Campout
