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Bridge #24, Kansas Bridge Series Traditional Geocache

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Hidden : 2/13/2016
Difficulty:
3 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

Our 27th Hide and Our 24th Bridge!!  This is a VERY HIGH MUGGLE area.  Please use your Maximum Stealth Capabilities!!

Please note, if you do not sign the log, do not log as found. We do check the log books periodically!!

Ok, so with some of the previous comments we have raised the difficulty. The cache remains the same and unchanged but apparently this is a favorite nesting area of the Canada Goose, and they can be mean. So use stealth from the muggles and caution from the geese. May take an attempt or two or three. We put the attribute of Dangerous Animals up because there really wasn't a good attribute for the geese, but they can be dangerous, especially to the elderly and to small children. Take caution at certain times of the year with this cache Please!!

What is a Bridge? A bridge is a structure carring a path of some sort, whether it be a hiking path, road, railroad, or even a canal over some sort of obstacle such as a river, ravine, another road or railroad, or other type of obstacle.

The oldest known datable bridge in the world that, believe it or not, is still in use is the slab-stone single-arch bridge in Izmir, Turkey which goes over the river Meles. Izmir is formerly known as Smyrna. This bridge dates back to c. 850 bc. There are remnants of Mycenaean bridges that still exist in the neighborhood of Mycenae, Greece that cross over the River Havos. These bridges are believed to date back to c. 1600 bc.

The oldest surviving roadway bridge in the United States is the Frankford Avenue Bridge which was erected in 1867 in the Holesburg section of Northeast Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This 73-foot-long three-span twin stone arch bridge carries Frankford Avenue, also U.S. Route 13, just north of Solly Avenue, over Pennypack Creek in Pennypack Park. This bridge is also commonly known as the Pennypack Creek Bridge, the Pennypack Bridge, the Holmesburg Bridge, and also as the King's Highway Bridge.

The oldest bridge in Kansas, that I know of, is the Wea Creek Bowstring Arch Truss Bridge in Topeka, Kansas. Listed in the National Register of Historic Places, this bridge was built in 1870 by Buckeye Bridge Works of Cleveland, Ohio. It was relocated to the Kansas State Historical Society in 1988 and is currently open to Pedestrian foot travel only. This bridge was posted in the National Register of Historic Places on May 9, 2003.

As with every cache, please Cache In Trash Out (CITO). We make every effort to leave the cache site cleaner than when we arrived, and no matter where the cache site is located, respect the propery and the landscape. We want to be able to continue to do this for a long time to come!! Happy Caching!!

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