Way back in the early 1800s when
Oberlin Ohio was first founded, no one knew anything about the
city. The city founders decided they needed to promote this out of
the way small town in the desert and make a few bucks,
too.
So they put their heads together and
figured that a visitor's center and souvenir shop was just what
they needed. They picked the only main road into the city, and up
it went.
Now, the cache you are
searching for is on the original foundation of the Oberlin Visitor
Bureau.
....OK
OK, so I made it up. I didn't know what to write about this spot or
what it used to be so I let my mind wander a little. The round
brick building you see near the cache site, is the old Gasholder
Building. Interesting looking and it is the future home of
Underground Railroad Museum. Here's a little history of
it:
The Gasholder building, built in 1889,
is a unique remnant of our industrial heritage, the only known
surviving gasholder structure west of the Appalachian Mountains.
The Gasholder Building was used to store manufactured coal gas from
1889 until 1918. Coal gas provided both light and heat in many late
19th century cities including Oberlin. In 1998, the U.S. Department
of the Interior listed the "Oberlin Gas Lighting Company Gasholder
House" on the National Register of Historic
Place.