GCY6F2 "Rescue"d (Traditional Cache) in California, United States created by Scoobert

This cache has been archived.

Scoobert: Obviously this one did not get "Rescue"d in time to succumb to it's fate with the EDC Bomb Squad.
One of my only road side caches placed to add to the "numbers" (as well as an interesting little story) of those attending the 9/06 RCGDS Event in Cameron Park. Lesson learned - last time I do that!
Since I do not want to create any more "suspicious" activity in the area, this cache is being archived [:(].

GCY6F2 ▼

A cache by Scoobert Message this owner

Hidden : 9/5/2006

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Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

Ever wonder how the town of Rescue got it's name? So did I.

Not a wealth of information on this, but the following is from an unknown newspaper article provided by the El Dorado County Historical Society.

How did Rescue get it's name? Andrew Hare, the owner of the nearby Pyramid Mine, came forward with a suggestion. His company was having hard times finding gold until the miners discovered a particularly rich quartz ledge that, the man said, "rescued" the company from bankruptcy. Hence, they called the vein the "Rescue Ledge". Why not also call the community "Rescue"?
Other historians suggest that "Rescue" was the name of a neighborhood mine, so named for the same reason, and that this is where the suggestion came from.
The postal service, which obviously cares not the slightest for the aesthetics of a name, readily accepted the suggestion and instilled it's post office as "Rescue, California, " on June 12, 1895. Something of an anachronism in El Dorado County with its "Coloma", "Hangtown", "Grizzly Flat", and so forth. Perhaps it was a sign of the times. All the Placer miners had left the area, and apparently they had taken with them their wonderful sense of place and the ability to give their mines, hills, gulches, bars, digs, and ravines such memorable names as "Condemned Bar", "Pilot Hill", "Murderer's Bar", "Negro Hill", "Mamaluke", "Rattlesnake Bar", "Old Dry Diggins", "Ravine City", and "Placerville".
Green Valley (i.e. Rescue) was not much of a mining camp during the Gold Rush. It was mainly a way station on the main road (Green Valley) between Sacramento and Coloma.

There are other variations to this story, but in general they all hint at "Rescued" from poverty. Not the best written article, either - but again the source is unknown.

Please cover the cache back up well as it did not have a very good "natural" hiding spot and I didn't want to leave a micro. There should be plenty of "cover" for it around.

BTW - this is the road that will lead you to "A Huff and a Puff to Pine Hill", a local favorite that is not visted too often