Watch Tower No More Traditional Geocache
Reviewer Smith: As I have not heard from the cache owner within the requested time frame, the cache is being archived.
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Elgin used to be home to the largest watch manufacturing facilities in the world at one time. Elgin has erased nearly all traces of the Elgin National Watch Company, but this Butera mini-mall was ground zero.Yes, I've heard of waymarks and you can log one for this sighting as well for a two-fer. This is a nano container and not hard to spot if you are a cacher, blends in if you aren't. Bring tweezers for log extraction.
The Elgin Company diversified after World War II making decorator clocks, transistor radios, wedding rings, but the heart’s beat was the Elgin watch. That heart beat had been getting slower every year and Elgin ceased to depend on the watch factory as its main enterprise. The clock tower of the National Street plant was torn down October 7, 1966.The world's largest watch manufacturing complex was located in several buildings from its inception in 1864 until the last Elgin movement made in the United States was completed in Elgin, South Carolina, in 1968.Plant No. 1, the Main Plant, was located at this cache location on National Street in Elgin, Illinois. The original building, opened in 1866, was expanded over the years. In 1925 it contained 583,343 square feet of floor space, the equivalent of 13.4 acres. This area was reduced to 454,800 square feet by 1947. The company sold it in 1965, and it was razed in 1965-66.It is fitting that the FTF goes to the waymark owner geognerd.
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