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==History== ===Bushrangers=== [[Ben Hall (bushranger)|Ben Hall]], who plundered the Forbes-Grenfell area in the 1850s used the Weddin Mountains as a refuge. He holed up in a cave on the north-west side of the park with his gang, which included [[John Gilbert (bushranger)|Johnnie Gilbert]] and [[Frank Gardiner]].<ref name=NRMA/> It is rumoured Ben Hall buried a treasure here that has not yet been located. ===Seaton's Farm=== There is a walk around 'Seaton's Historic Farm', which is now part of the national park. Seatons Farm is how one man and his wife turned every bit of wire into something useful. Jim Seaton hand made 3 km/1.8 miles of kangaroo proof fence by hand, with posts of local saplings, which are rot and vermin proof.<ref name=Allenberg>{{cite web | author = Allenberg, David |publisher= Degree Confluence Project| year=2002| title = Degree Confluence Project |url=http://www.confluence.org/confluence.php?id=1265 | access-date = 2007-06-11}}</ref> The property was occupied in the late 1920s and during the Depression it was set up as a farm. Times and the land were hard and the buildings represent this. The sheds have walls made from flattened corrugated iron so that it stretched further. One of the sheds is full of old wire, iron sheets, bottles, everything you can imagine. All the old machinery is still there, sitting where it was when the family sold the property to the Government in the 1980s. A unique place, showing how the less well off farmers did it in the early and mid 1900s.<ref name=McFadyen/>
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