The Derby Traditional Cache

This cache has been archived.

NHPride: Due to unresolved issues, this cache has been archived. Please pick up any remaining cache bits as soon as possible.

Should you resolve cache issues and wish it re-posted, contact me at NHPridereviewer@gmail.com. Be sure to include the GC waypoint number. Keep in mind archived caches go through the review process and current guidelines apply.

Thanks for your understanding,
NHPride / Rich
Groundspeak Volunteer Reviewer for NH/VT

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Hidden : 9/3/2007
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:

This cache is in honor of Derb522002 hitting 500 caches.

Here is a little history of the "Derby".

Lock's of St. James's named their hat styles after the customers for whom they were created. The bowler hat which they designed and sold in 1850 to William Coke of Norfolk, they called it a Coke hat. It was actually made, however, by the Bowler family of Southwark and gradually took the name of Bowler hats, as its populatity grew. The bowler hat was the first hard, rounded crowned hat. In the United States it was known as the "derby hat", and it was popular with all classes of tradesmen and artisans. It has proved to be one of the most enduring and successful hats ever designed.

At the turn of the twentieth century, under the broad category of dress hats there were several interesting distinctions among hat styles. Stiff hats (bowlers & derby hats) were not flexible, they had been given a coat of shellac during their construction to stiffen them and they did not conform to the shape of the wearer's head. This is the case of the Miller Hats 150 Bowler Hat by Christy's (Very Stiff Hat).

****9/11/09 - Moved the cache to a better spot. Coordinates are the same. You'll know it when you see it.

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