To Complete this Wherigo/Geocache you will need access to a local park that is open Dawn to Dusk. 

In order to get answers at Petes Club Grill you will need to access during those business hours (Google it)

Update: Container is missing....again, and part of this (Petes) has changed). My friend Don aka Pete has passed.

I will miss you my friend. 

I will rewrite this WIG soon and get another container out. If you play this cartridge and 

complete please feel free too log your smiley and log it on WIG site too.

Remlinger Farms in Carnation/Tolt is hosting GeoWoodstock VIII in 2010.

This is a short Wherigo that will take you on a short stroll thru the 

city. Carnation is full of history and you may even learn/experience 

some with your visit here. Read below for a condensed version of

some of the towns history.

<Carnation/Tolt History>

Thanks to the COWWS for hosting this epic event, and of course 

thanks to everyone in Carnation for putting up with all of our Geocachers.

Before you begin this adventure you will need one of the following items:
1. Garmin Colorado, Oregon or Nuvi 500 series.
2. A pocket PC with attached gps.
3. An OpenWIG device like an Android powered device with Wherigo compatible app.
4. An iPhone with a wherigo app.

See Wherigo.com or the Wherigo forums for more information.


You can download the cartridge here: Download Cartridge
Cartridge version 1.1 or later required to find the cache.

I would also like to add that this Wherigo would never have happened without the wise 

and patient counsel of rambudo, who helped teach me this program, Thanks my friend.

Thanks to Mount10bike for the last minute publish too, couldnt have happened without you!

As always have fun, be safe and happy hunting!

Carnation/Tolt -- Thumbnail History

HistoryLink.org
Essay 391

Carnation (previously Tolt), a rural community along the Snoqualmie River in
eastern King County, was founded early in the settlement of the county. The town
was named after the world-famous Carnation Dairy, a dairy operation that located
in Tolt in 1910.

The city of Carnation has seen many changes over the years, not the least of
which is its own name.

The confluence of the Tolt and Snoqualmie rivers has been the main village
site for the Snoqualmie tribe for thousands of years. When white settlers
arrived in the 1850s, the tribe greeted them in a friendly manner, so much so
that in 1855, Chief Patkanim ceded the valley and tribal sites to the United
States, opening the way for many homesteaders.

From Deserter to Respected Citizen

The first white settler, James Entwistle, had deserted the Union Army at Fort
Steilacoom (located along Puget Sound, just south of present-day Tacoma).
Entwistle took up 169 acres of land at the confluence of the rivers, established
a trading post, and later became successful in hop farming. At the time of his
death in 1902, he was very well respected in the community.

Soon after Entwistle arrived, many others came to the valley to work the
land. Once the heavy underbrush was cleared in the valley, small logging camps
began dotting the hillsides. Skid roads (roads made of greased logs)were built
from the hills to the Snoqualmie River, and they were used to get the logs down
to the water. With the valley cleared of brush, the fertile land beneath was
ready for farming.

Getting to Tolt from Seattle was no easy task, but many prospective farmers
did. W. A. Templeton, writing in 1953, remembered as a child taking the ferry
across Lake Washington, riding pack horses to Redmond, and then following 20
miles of trails to Tolt. Once at the river, goods were transported across in a
large Indian canoe.

By 1879, enough families were living in Tolt to necessitate the construction
of a school, which was no more than a log shack. In 1882, schoolchildren moved
to a larger building. In 1895, a proper schoolhouse was built. This grammar
school would serve Tolt children for almost 40 years.

By the end of the nineteenth century, the community of Tolt mainly consisted
of cabins, the school, a church, and a social club. On May 6, 1902, the town was
platted and soon more businesses and services became available to the loggers,
farmers, and their families. On New Years' Eve, 1912, the town of Tolt was
incorporated.

The Railroad Arrives

Many events, but especially the introduction of railroads to the area, led to
the incorporation of Tolt. The Great Northern Railroad had reached Tolt from the
north in 1910. In 1911, the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad built a
branch line from the South. The Milwaukee would later take over the Great
Northern tracks up to Monroe, 15 miles to the north.

The Milwaukee Railroad also built a railyard and depot in Tolt. The railroad
introduced a fast and reliable method of transportation and permitted Tolt to
become a boomtown. Before the railroad, logs and dairy goods had been shipped on
the unreliable river, with its heavy flooding in the early spring and low water
levels at the end of the summer.

Home of Contented Cows

Dairy farming was an economic staple for Tolt ever since the brush had been
cleared, but Carnation Dairy put the town on the map. In 1910, Elbridge Amos
Stuart cleared 350 acres of timber and brush and brought in a purebred bull and
86 registered Holstein cows to form a research herd. Two years later, he cleared
400 more acres, and today the farm rests on some 1,200 acres of land.

The valley became world-famous as the "Home for Contented Cows."
One cow from the herd, nicknamed "Possum Sweetheart," produced more
than 37,000 pounds of milk in one year -- a world record. Over the years many
famous people visited the farm to see her, including boxer Jack Dempsey, who
tried his hand at milking her.

What's In a Name?

In 1917, the town of Tolt changed its name to Carnation, in honor of the
farms. Unfortunately this did not sit well with the Indians and early settlers.
The area had always been known as Tolt, even before white settlers arrived. The
Snoqualmie name "Tolthue" (river of swift waters) had been in use for
more than 10,000 years. To the Indians and pioneers, the use of the name Tolt
over a few millennia of seemed like a good test of time.

Over the next few years, as resources dwindled, the logging camps ceased
operations and the town's heyday was over. The swift changes that brought the
community into being had reached a plateau, and since then the local farms have
provided a steady economy.

Confusion, Maybe

The controversy over the name change continued, though, and in 1928 the town
decided to change the name back to Tolt. Unfortunately, the train depot and the
post office names remained as Carnation, and for the next two decades, confusion
reigned. Some maps showed the town as Tolt, some as Carnation. Some maps showed
both.

Finally, in 1951, the city changed its name back to Carnation to end the
discrepancies once and for all. In the late 1990s, with an estimated population
of about 1,500 (U.S. Census Bureau, 1996), the town was officially named
Carnation, but there are those who still call it Tolt. Some things you can't