Vanished Shipyard Letterbox Hybrid
Rock Rabbit: The cache owner is not responding to issues with this listing, so I must regretfully archive it.
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Historic Guemes Island Shipyard site.
Site History
Uncle Sam enlisted the help of shipbuilder Joseph Sloan, who built a new shipyard on Guemes Island and hired crews of hundreds to construct six wooden ocean-going steamers. On Nov. 11, peace was celebrated by a great demonstration in Anacortes, but the end of the war also meant cancellations on mill and shipbuilding jobs. Sloan, who had run for Congress in 1918, ended up losing everything and committing suicide in 1922.
Timeline
1917 Sloan Shipbuilding opens on Guemes Island.
1918 The war ends in armistice.
1921 The shipyard property was sold to a Tacoma man who dismantled the buildings and removed all traces of the Guemes industry that had been built in 1917. The total property, including 28 acres, was sold for $6,000.00.
The Cache
When walking the beach please respect the beach dwellers property. Mid to low tides are most passable. This cache is a Letterbox Hybrid. The cache box contains a log for Geocachers and a log for Letterboxers. Geocachers sign in as normal. Please only use the Letterboxing log if you are also letterboxing. Please remember that the Letterboxing stamp is not a trade item. For more details on letterboxing, visit www.letterboxing.org.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
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