The land on which Calegero stood was selected first by Michael Richardson, a miner, about March 1877, but he soon moved on. The land was on the Iguana Creek, out from Lindenow, where the foothills took over from the flats. In December 1877, John Caughey, a miner from Grant, applied for the land, and moved there with his wife, Annie Nicol. First they built a log cabin with long logs, which is now at the museum at Bairnsdale. The Old Gippstown building is believed to be their second, built about 1880 a short distance from the first, but later incorporated into a much bigger complex.
Rhoden’s Cobb & Co. Inn
This drop slab and plaster inn was built in 1863 by David Connor on the north side of the road between Pakenham...