The Yellowstone Trail went through Auburndale, and travelers might have stopped at the R. Conner Company General Store, a historic brick building right on highway 10 now. The building has been converted into an antique store, and you can still see how one side was the general store, and the other side was a restaurant.
This is one of several caches I have placed along the route of the historic Yellowstone Trail. The trail is a historic motor route that went across Wisconsin from 1918 to 1930. The Wisconsin portion of the Yellowstone Trail is 406 miles long, starting at the state line south of Kenosha and going north, and then west to Hudson. The Wisconsin segment is just a part of one of America’s first transcontinental auto routes, a 3,754-mile long road that started in Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts and went to Puget Sound, Washington.
Before there were numbered highways in the United States there were names attached to roads to help motorists navigate from town to town or from county to county. Hailed as being “A Good Road from Plymouth Rock to Puget Sound,” the Yellowstone Trail began as a 25-mile stretch of road near Ipswitch, South Dakota.
In October 1912, Mr. J. W. Parmley formed the Yellowstone Trail Association. By 1917 the Yellowstone Trail had grown to become the main auto route for those travelling from the East Coast to Yellowstone National Park and the Pacific Northwest. While the Association did not build roads, it did lobby local governments in towns along the Trail to help promote the fledgling automobile tourism industry by building and maintaining “good roads.” Trail towns paid the Association a small fee or “assessment” to help cover advertising expenses and upkeep of the Trail.
The posted coords take you to the parking area in front of the Auburndale General Store. You do not need to go inside the store to find the cache.
To find the final, note the 2 dates in the brickwork at the top of the old store. The final for this cache is in the city park just a few blocks north of the store, at:
44.37.AAA
90.00.BBB
AAA equals the year the store was built - 934.
BBB equals the second year in the brickwork - 1359.