This is Vermont: Richmond Traditional Cache
Hidden : 11/22/2008
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2.5 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:

This is Vermont: Richmond

This cache is part of the Vermont 251 Plus 4 Geocaching Club, an attempt to bring caches to each and every town, city and gore in the state of Vermont!




Richmond Facts

 County: Chittenden
Chartered: October 27, 1794 (Vermont Act of Incorporation)
Area: 20,957 Acres = 32.75 Square Miles [ Size Rank: 188* ]
Coordinates (Geographic Center): 73°00''W 44°24'N
Altitude: 319 feet ASL
Population (US Census, 2000): 4,090 [ Population Rank: 36* ]
Population Density (persons per square mile): 124.9 [ Density Rank: 32* ]

*Area, Population and Density rankings above refer to Richmond's relative position among Vermont's 255 civic entities (9 cities, 242 towns, 4 gores and grants).

Richmond was created from lands in what had been three contiguous towns (Jericho, Williston and Huntington); a piece of a fourth (Bolton) was added later. How a new town came to be created from some of the best land in four others is buried deep in petitions and laws of the young state. The whole thing has the distinct odor of politics, with the Allens, the Chittendens and other members of the Onion River Company involved. How the name was chosen is not known, though we can reasonably rule out honoring royalty.

Richmond Center has always been the chief village, though Jonesville, to the south on Route 2, was a close second for a number of years. Ransome Jones was a prominent village merchant in the 1880's.

Fays Corners, on the road to Hinesburg, received a post office in 1890. Truman Fay's widow, Salome, was the one and only postmistress, the office folding two years later for lack of business. The chief business in that area was the Fay family's wool-carding and cloth dying mill, but that was defunct by 1900.

About the cache


The cache is a small lock 'n lock that will require a short , but somewhat steep, descent down an embankment, and back up (of course). Be advised that there is a bit of old barbed wire in the vicinity of the cache.

Located in this cache are two code numbers. These numbers are needed to locate the cache This is Vermont: Chittenden County

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