Step 3


Let’s find the box’ owner and where it is exactly from.

 The box comes from the oldest building in Victoria (Australian state). It is a vine-covered brick house located to the south end of Melbourne. It was the home of our character’s parents, James and Grace.
It was likely built the same year that the famous explorer joined the navy, in 1755, when he was already an adult. He may have visited the house, but no one can say for certain that he ever lived there. 
Like their son, James and Grace never set foot in Melbourne. How can it be? How could Melbourne’s oldest European structure be older than the presence of Europeans in Victoria? Whose box has «JC»? Let's see!


You can find infomation on the site - 


 looking for - 


1.    What is our hero’s name? Whose box is it?
2.     How could our hero have been in a cottage in a place he had never been?
3.    What plant grew on the house, was saved and replanted there?
4.    When was the cottage opened to the public?

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