Richland County Run Around Richland Center # 16 Traditional Geocache
gary/dawn: With recent family health issues we are pulling out several of the caches that we will no longer maintain.
Richland County Run Around Richland Center # 16
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A neat little cache located along the Pine River
Richland Center was founded in 1851 by Ira Sherwin Hazeltine, a native of Andover, Vermont. Hazeltine was drawn to the site because of its abundant water power, fertile prairies, and its proximity to the geographical center of Richland County.Richland Center became an important location for the women's suffrage movement in Wisconsin after Laura Briggs James, Julia Bowen, and other residents founded the Richland Center Woman's Club in early 1882. The club quickly became the largest suffrage group in the state and was influential in organizing the movement throughout Wisconsin. Susan B. Anthony visited Richland Center in 1886. Later, Laura James' daughter Ada James became influential in the movement, helping to found the Political Equality League in 1909 and advocating for women's rights, pacifism, birth control, and prohibition. Frank Lloyd Wright was born at Richland Center in 1867.The GTE Corporation, which had been the largest independent telephone company in the United States until its merger with Bell Atlantic to form Verizon Communications in 2000, originated when John F. O'Connell, Sigurd L Odegard and John A. Pratt acquired the Richland Center Telephone Company in 1918
This is the 16th in this series be sure to look under the lids for a possible clue to the final. Some will have a number and some will not. Happy Caching
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Yvtug zr hc