Sandy Creek Cowboy Cache No. 6 Traditional Cache
SD Rowdies: Been trashed it seems. So it goes.
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Sandy Creek Cowboy Cache No. 6
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A cache was placed as a tribute to Marguerite Thayer Palmer and to the tiny rural enclave once known as Boulder Oaks Resort and Country Store. Marguerite fought a losing battle against U. S. Forest Service officials in an effort to establish Boulder Oaks Resort as a historical site.
Boulder Oaks Resort came into existence in 1919. By 1928 the little hamlet offered a general store, a gasoline station, and resort cabins. The Boulder Oaks population peaked at about thirty-two residents not counting dogs, cats, and livestock.
People came to Boulder Oaks with a belief that the climate and temperatures found there would moderate respiratory ailments of all sorts. Everyone admired the grove of ancient oak and sugar-pine trees. What developed was a close-knit community of rugged individualists that wanted nothing more than to live a simple, countrified life.
Unfortunately Boulder Oaks Resort was actually situated on leased Forest Service land. In 1975 the U. S. Forest Service conducted a “needs assessment” that called for eviction of the Boulder Oaks residents. The Forest Service acted on their conclusions in June of 1994 by serving eviction notices and giving residents three weeks to depart.
At eighty-nine years of age Maguerite Thayer Thatcher Palmer and her eighty-eight year old second husband Marion A. Palmer took a lively stand against the “Forest Service troopers.” Their short-lived stand was much admired by back-country people. Strong feelings were expressed in print and in a number of public meetings. Back country editorial cartoonists had quite a field-day at the expense of the U. S. Forest Service.
In the end all that remains of Boulder Oaks Resort and Country Store is the stand of trees, a crossing-point of the Pacific Crest Trail, an idle Forest Service campground, and the paved area on which the old Boulder Oaks Country Store once stood. The paved area now serves as a handy parking spot near the crossing of the Pacific Crest Trail.
Marguerite expressed her sad and hopeless feelings in her poem “The Saga of Boulder Oaks.” In her own words “The very same people who’s wages we pay, are trying to take Boulder Oaks away.”
Do think of Marguerite and her neighbors as you visit this Geocache. Her poem is available at the Pine Valley Library.That’s progress?Carpenter from Hell, DennisB, and Harmon of SD Rowdies
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