No Mail Today Traditional Geocache
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Esson’s Tree
The mail coach went up from Swan Hill to Narrung in one day and came back the next, changing horses at Piangil.
There is a tree at Tyntynder called "Esson’s Tree" where the coach driver, Frederick John Esson,
used to hang the mail bags for Tyntynder station
Tyntynder Station
The Tyntynder Plains, stretching along the Victorian banks of the mighty Milloo (Murray River)
was home to the Watti Watti people for thousands of years.
Their homes were built of bark and mud (mia-mia's) and they farmed the land.
Native grass seeds and nardoo were harvested and ground for flour, stubble was burnt
and lush regrowth attracted grazing stock - kangaroos and emu.
Fish nets were woven from the fibrous roots of reeds and quandong, the native fruit, was harvested and dried.
Reeds, for spears, and possum skins were traded for green stone, used for axes.
In 1846 the Beverage brothers travelled from Kilmore by bullock dray and settled on this land.
The property became known as Tyntynder Station.
The construction of the homestead, a log cabin of Murray Pine, was commenced in that year.
Bricked over in 1850, with hand made bricks, this has been classified as the first brick veneer in Australia.
The homestead was completed in 1854 with a solid brick extension and in 1860 roof iron, brought from Glasgow,
was placed over the stringy bark shingles.
The Holloway family purchased the property in 1876 and it remained as their family home for four generations, 120 years.
In 1996 the property, then reduced to 160 acres, was purchased by the descendants of the traditional land owners.
The Dog Netting Fence
This fence stretched approximately 325 kilometres from Tyntynder Station to the South Australian border
The fence was intended to prevent wild dogs and other vermin entering farmlands to the south.
Within a decade the boundary was made redundant as it was realized that the Mallee was highly suited to wheat growing.
THE CACHE
The container that you are looking for is of cylinder shape with a log sheet & pen only
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