Once A Farm, Now A Suburb, Modbury
Part of the series of A Letterbox Cache for each Postcode and/or Location.
This cache has been hidden adjacent to Kelly Road, Modbury in an area once the southwestern extremity of Modbury Farm that covered most of the original Modbury village.
The owner Robert Symons Kelly built his home in 1841, a small cottage of rubble stone. Modbury Farm and named it after his place of birth in Modbury, Devonshire in the U.K.
The home is currently a restaurant in the Modbury Triangle Shopping Centre.
Modbury Farm
Robert Kelly was a public-spirited man, interested in the community, he was chairman of the district council from 1860-62. When he donated the piece of land in 1863 to the Methodist Church, the Wesleyan Chapel was built opposite what is now Tea Tree Plus Shopping Centre. Kelly stipulated the chapel should also be used for a day school.
In 1865 he gave another piece of land close to the chapel for a recreation ground. The original Modbury Oval and later tennis court (now Civic Park). Today the new council chambers library and car park are part of this area also.
He also gave the land for the old Modbury Primary School, on Montague Road which is now part of Sfera’s on the Park, and the land for the Institute building, now the Plaza Hotel bottle shop.
The cache contains a stamp for Letterboxers to use in their Letterboxing book.
Please do not take the letterbox stamp, this is not a tradeable item.
The trees in the background of this image may still be on Kelly Road at the suggested car park.
Parking is normally available on both sides of Kelly Road close to the cache but please use the suggested car park out of the line of traffic and take the short walk to the geocache.
The suggested place to park is an excellent location if you want to walk or ride your bike along the Dry Creek Trail.
Note: All the images are from the State Library of South Australia Collection.
A Pictorial History of Modbury Farm