TGT: Whiteland Traditional Cache
Hidden : 8/15/2007
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

Whiteland was named to honor the White family who donated land for the townsite around 1911 when the railroad was extended west from Brady. On old railroad maps the community was called Homer Junction. A post office opened the following year and by 1914 the town reported a population of fifty. The prosperity of the 1920s boosted the population to 125 by the middle of that decade, but the Great Depression took its toll and by 1943 only 40 people were enumerated. The post office closed sometime before the mid-1950s. The cotton gin and the loading pens were in the pasture to the north of the county road. The gin burned down in 1948. The school consolidated with Melvin. The 2 story brick school building still stands, lonesome in the middle of a field.

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