Beautiful Valley Multi-Cache
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Wilmington
Small rural township once known as Beautiful Valley Located 292 km
north of Adelaide, Wilmington has a highly original main street
where there is no footpath as such but there are trees between the
road and the buildings creating a kind of natural division between
the road and the footpath.
The first European settlers into
the region arrived in the 1850s. They were impressed with the
richness of the region (it was obviously during a time of good
rainfall) and the prettiness of the setting and decided to name the
district Beautiful Valley.
The first sign of a township in the district occurred in 1860-61
when Robert Blinman built a inn at the foot of Horrocks Pass which
he named the Roundwood Hotel. By 1864 the Cobb & Co coach
through the area stopped at the hotel. A few years later the Globe
Hotel was built nearby. It is now known as the Wilmington Hotel and
it is still possible to see the old coaching stables at the back of
the building.
The town was officially named Wilmington by Governor Musgrave in
1876. No one is quite sure where he got the name but it is assumed
that it was taken from either Wilmington in Delaware or Wilmington
in North Carolina, in the United States. Why he chose this name is
not certain although it is known that Musgrave's wife was American.
Did she come from Wilmington?
The day the town was gazetted the local people protested. They
liked the name Beautiful Valley. They seem to have been overruled
by one local who insisted that Beautiful Valley was the name of the
local station (property) and it was never the name of the
town.
Today Wilmington is a sleepy little town with a population of only
a couple of hundred people. It does have an excellent little museum
with what looks like a Jindivik rocket outside. For the rest: it
looks like it hasn't changed since the 1950s. It is truly a town
which has stood still.
From the posted coordinates
1 : What is the elevation of Mount Maria #AB
2 : Captain Matthew Flinders navigated the Investigator up Spencer
Gulf in CD#E
S 32 3(A) . 3(A)(B)
E138 (B)6 . (E)(C)5
You will be looking for a small sized round type cache container
painted Brown
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Guvf cynpr ybbxf pnpghf nsgre fb znal lrnef
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