Back Access Traditional Cache
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The cache gives you the chance to look into the backyard of some real estate in Bridgeman Downs. After you have found the cache take a drive around and look at all of the nearby front yards - you will be surprised by some.
There are several different access points how easy or how hard depends on the way you choose.
In November 1860, Henry St John Bridgeman bought land bounded by Albany Creek, Albany Creek Road, Bridgeman Road and Beams Road.
In 1877, Bishop James Quinn's Queensland Immigration Society purchased this land, for the migrants he had bought from Ireland. The land became known as the Bishop's Paddock. However ultimately the land was leased out to mostly German immigrants, who initially cleared and fenced the land in lieu of lease payments.
Bridgeman Downs was gazetted as a suburb in 1975. In recent years the suburb has raised its profile by transforming areas of open forest country to up-market contemporary housing, especially on large estates.
With some of the native vegetation still visible from the main roads, Bridgeman Downs has successfully retained the rural atmosphere from earlier times when the area was used for cattle grazing.
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