Great Western Traditional Cache
Rattlingcrew: It was cool history and I love that, the notes tell the story though. Thanks, Glen
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Small camouflaged tupperware container located in a portion of the Leavenworth Landing Park on the city-side of the tracks.
This cache has been hidden near the old "Great Western Stove Company" building in Leavenworth. The company was established in 1858 as the Great Western Manufacturing Company. It wasn't until 1875 that the Stove Company branched off. With over 100 styles and sizes of cooking stoves, heating stoves, and ranges, Great Western Stoves were well known and widely used. A Great Western Pot-Bellied Stove currently is on exhibit in a museum in Alaska.
If you look through the fence to the south, you will see the remains of a bridge that once was part of the Electric Inter-Urban Railway connecting Leavenworth with Kansas City. In 1923, round trip tickets from Kansas City, MO to Leavenworth were $1.32.
Leavenworth is working hard to improve this area. Many of these older buildings have been rennovated and converted into lofts. This renewal is a work in progress.
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