 Whoa Nellie!
A cache by habu! Hidden: 10/31/2008
Size:  (Small) Difficulty:  Terrain: (1 is easiest, 5 is hardest)
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The Vallecito - Butterfield Stage Stop historical marker is one of
the few remaining landmarks that remind us of the famous stage line
of the 1850s and 1860s.
John Butterfield of New York was awarded the contract in 1859 to
carry mail and people from San Francisco to the Mississippi River.
His company spent a year planning and laying out the route. By the
time the first stage was ready, Butterfierld Overland had 1500
employees, constructed 80 stations, purchased 200 mail wagons and
owned 1,200 head of livestock.
The first trip started from San Francisco on September 15, 1858
and the first train carring mail left St. Louis the next day. The
first cross country trip from St. Louis to San Francisco took 23
days, 23 and 1/2 hours.
The company suspended operations over this route when the Civil
War started and moved this route North going thru Salt Lake City
and Sacramento.
The completion of the Union Pacific Railroad in 1869 marked the
end of the stage route.
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 November 22, 2009 by habu! (7285 found)
Seems the "rangers" removed the cache because there was suposedly an illegal object (pottery) in the container. I'll speak to the natives and decide what to do.
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 November 22, 2009 by chaosmanor (3459 found)
I stopped here while wending my way home in Ventura County after a long drive from my parents' place in Escondido to Mission Bay to Ocotillo and then through Anza-Borrego to the freeway. Got some nice caches, including three in Imperial County for the CA County Challenge. Didn't realize that there were several DNFs here in the past week or so, so took a look around, but saw nothing like the hint. Gotta agree with the others; this seems to be gone, and it's time to check up on it.
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 November 8, 2009 by ventura_kids (20303 found)
Verified with Fotomom....this one is gone.
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 November 8, 2009 by Duncan! (12060 found)
Hey Bill, I think this is the one the rangers took, 'cause the Redux cache was still there on the 6th. Cya,Duncan
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November 7, 2009 by Let's Look Over Thayer (5882 found)
No joy for us on this cache today. We looked. We did not find...
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Current Time: 2/10/2010 3:02:03 AM (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) (11:02 AM GMT)
Last Updated: 11/22/2009 9:07:09 PM (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) (5:07 AM GMT)
Rendered: From Database
Coordinates are in the WGS84 datum
