Shellharbour History Walk Multi-Cache
Shellharbour History Walk
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Welcome to Shellharbour Village. This cache is an easy walk around the old Shellharbour village which will fill your brain with interesting and maybe useless info about the joint. Enjoy!
Welcome to Shellharbour, so named because of the shell-like natural feature of the local landscape, and formally known as Peterborough, was one of the earliest land grants received by D’Arcy Wentworth.
After his death in 1827 the estate was divided between the 5 of his children – Robert, Martha (Reddall), Sophia (towns), Mary Anne (Addison) and Catherine (Darley).
The streets of Shellharbour were named after these families. In 1843 Caroline Chisholm, the “emigrants friend”” settled some 23 families in the district. Many of these pioneers were signatories to a petition to form the municipality of Shellharbour dated 14th January 1859.
The Co-ords for the car park across the road from the pub are S 34 34.674 E 150 52.213, which is the best place to start this trip back in time. This car park does get locked up after hours but the cache and way points are all available 24 hours a day, you just may have to park else where. Once you have all of the dates needed there is a quick bit of maths and then off to GZ where the Cache awaits. When you’re all done be sure to drop into the Pub for a cool ale or have a bite to eat at one of the many food outlets along your walk.
1. WP1 S 34 34.783 E 150 52.332 What year was Beverley Whitfield born? _ _ _ _
2. WP2 S 34 34.688 E 150 52.218 In what year was the Ocean Beach Hotel opened? _ _ _ _.
3. WP3 S 34 34.715 E 150 52.146 In what year did the steam packet hotel open ? _ _ _ _.
4. WP4 S34 34.727 E 150 52.115 In what year was the settlers arms destroyed? _ _ _ _ .
5. WP5 S 34 34.726 E 150 52.100 In what year did Samuel Charles Attchison die? _ _ _ _.
6. WP6 S 34 34.755 E 150 52.042 In what year did Walter Allen establish the general store ? _ _ _ _.
7. WP7 S 34 34.762 E 150 51.998 What year was the Peterborough Store opened? _ _ _ _.
8. WP8 S 34 34.768 E 150 51.985 In what year was the new court house and lock up built? _ _ _ _.
9. WP9 S 34 34.632 E 150 52.210 What year was the concrete breakwater constructed? _ _ _ _.
Now that you have all of the dates you need, add them together and subtract them from 17333. This will give you the last 3 numbers needed to find the Cache.
17333 - _ _ _ _ _ = ABC
GZ co ords are S 34 34.581 E 150 52.ABC.
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