Boot Hill Traditional Cache
Nibs: The cache has finally bitten the dust after 20 Years. It’s no longer in the place I put it and I can only assume somebody’s nicked it. RIP.
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An interesting bit of our pioneering history, easily overlooked.
The settlement of Chain of Ponds was established by the South Australia Company. First settled early in the 1840s, the township was laid out after the opening of the North East Road in the 1850s.
By this time, the town was reported to include two post office buildings, institute, church, service station, a handful of cottages and the old Morning Star Hotel.
There was also a nearby township called Millbrook, but it was demolished to make way for the Millbrook Reservoir, which was constructed between 1914 and 1918 to control the flow of the upper Torrens River and supply the eastern suburbs of Adelaide from an appropriate elevation.
In the 1970s, Chain of Ponds was also demolished to safeguard against water pollution in the reservoir.
Little more than this cemetery exists as a reminder of Chain of Ponds.
Careful walking around, as it's not always obvious where the inhabitants are.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Evpuneq vf uvqvat vg ng uvf srrg
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