GC33BX8 Ovens Crossing (Traditional Cache) in Victoria, Australia created by mvyrmnd

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GC33BX8 ▼

A cache by mvyrmnd Message this owner

Hidden : 9/1/2011

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Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

This cache is placed at the side of the Ovens River, to honor the original name of the town of Wangaratta.

Some history: The first European explorers to pass through the Wangaratta area were Hume and Hovell (1824) who named the Oxley Plains immediately south of Wangaratta. The New South Wales Surveyor-General, Major Thomas Mitchell, crossed the Ovens River in 1836 during his Australia Felix expedition. There is a "Mitchell tree" near where Murphy Street, Wangaratta, meets the Ovens River, stated to be a place where Mitchell stopped. In the following year George and William Faithfull settled at the Bontharambo pastoral station, north of Wangaratta. In 1838 their place was taken by Joseph Docker. Docker's Bontharambo homestead (1858) is on the Register of the National Estate. A punt for crossing the Ovens River was begun by a man named Rattray in 1838. The Hope Inn, now the Sydney Hotel at Ovens and Templeton Streets, was opened in 1840. Ovens Crossing, as it was called, formed a settlement which became Wangaratta. In 1848 the Port Phillip surveyor, Robert Hoddle, arranged for a town survey at Ovens Crossing, consisting of eleven streets and about 200 blocks. It was named Wangaratta, reputedly derived from an Aboriginal word meaning cormorant's resting place. Land sales took place in 1849-50. A primary school was opened in 1850, and the site continues as that of the Wangaratta State primary school. The cache is big enough for swaps, but has no pen. Please BYO