Historic Ward Massacre Traditional Geocache

This cache is placed in a nice little park at the site of the Ward Massacre in 1862. ;The park is on Lincoln Rd. east of Middleton Rd, North of Highway 20-26.

Only 2 young boys survived the Indian attack on Alexander Ward's 20 member party, Oregon bound on August 20, 1854. Military retaliation for the slaughter so enraged the Indians that Hudson's Bay Co. posts, Fort Boise and Fort Hall had to be abandoned, and the Oregon Trail became unsafe without army escort. ;Eight years of Indian terror followed. Finally the 1862 gold rush brought powerful forces, civilian and military, that gradually subdued the tribes.