Trailer City Traditional Cache
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Small container, can hold small items, camouflaged into the environment just a few steps from the street on private property, permission granted, homeowner aware.
You are looking for a small container camouflaged into the environment a few steps from street on private property with permission granted, homeowner aware. Watch for muggles of the human variety during the day and “quiet stealth” required at night or early morning to avoid alerting muggles of the barking variety. Some neighbors are now aware of cache. Can hold small items such as coins, pins, pathtags, stickers, etc.
Back in the early 1950’s, the lives and cultures of people in a few small towns in Aiken, Allendale, and Barnwell counties were drastically changed. The Atomic Energy Commission made the announcement, in late 1950, that more than 200,000 acres of land would be the site of a new weapons plant in South Carolina. The approximately 1500 families and businesses of Ellenton, Dunbarton, Hawthorne, Leigh, Meyer’s Mill, and Robbins were given up to 18 months to relocate. Anyone in the immediate construction zone had as little as 6 weeks to vacate their land. Some bitterness and controversy occurred over the forced evacuation and low prices for property, but many still felt that it was their patriotic duty.
Dupont was the company selected to run the operation called the Savannah River Project. Construction workers from all over the United States were brought in by the thousands. Temporary trailer parks were set up around the plant boundaries in Aiken, Augusta, Barnwell, and Williston to house the approximately 40,000 workers and families. These were known as Trailer Cities or Cities on Wheels. There was still a severe housing shortage and some workers lived in tents.
As the Savannah River Site grew, so did the rest of the surrounding area. Workers needed more permanent housing, places to shop, and schools. The area grew to meet the demand by adding more businesses, schools, and new subdivisions. By the end of the 1950’s, many of the towns surrounding the site had doubled and even tripled in size.
This cache is located in one of the areas known as a trailer city. Before the construction of Centennial Corporate Center and Mallard Lakes subdivision, one could walk through the woods and find remnants of asphalt streets and some areas where pans, buckets, bottles, etc. had been dumped or left behind. Putting up a fence proved harder than it looked when the location of some posts hit an asphalt street 4 to 8 inches below the surface. The area is the home of nice, quiet neighborhoods consisting of some older and newer homes and duplexes.
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