GC1VTAC Sod Hut (Traditional Cache) in South Australia, Australia created by M & A

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A cache by M & A Message this owner

Hidden : 7/11/2009

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Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:

More often than not, one of us will call the other a sod. A reason is sometimes optional. So when we were driving down this road and Sod Hut appeared on the map, we knew we had to place a cache here.

Sod Hut was not a town, but was the site of a hotel called the Sod Hut Inn on section 21 Hundred of Kooringa. The site was leased by Daniel O’Leary from G.S. Kingston in the 1840s and he purchased the freehold in 1852.

Though it may have started out as a descriptive name, the hotel was eventually quite a substantial stone building and was still standing, though unoccupied, in the first decade of the twentieth century. The proprietors of the inn were:

Daniel O’Leary 1850-1865

T. Hare 1866-1875

John Fradd 1876-1883

From GZ you can see the ruins of three buildings, all of which are on private land, and give their name to the property - Sod Hut Farm.