Rorick's Glen Traditional Cache
Sapience Trek: As there's been no cache to find for months, I'm archiving it to keep it from continually showing up in search lists, and to prevent it from blocking other cache placements. Caches archived for lack of maintenance will not be unarchived.
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Camo conatiner. Small trades, bugs and coins will fit. Not too far off a trail. Please hide better than found!
GPS showing 10 foot accuracy when placed.
There are several choices for parking, but the end of Country Club Drive is the closest, plus there is an interesting house along the way.
Across the river was the location of Rorick's Glen. You can still see the remnants of the pedestrian bridge.
"Elmira's residents could pick up the trolley to West Elmira where they could cross the Chemung River on the foot bridge to Rorick's Glen. The old wooden bridge which connected the West Water trolley loop with the Glen was replaced by steel spans in 1907. This bridge was carried away by the 1946 flood, and a successor was washed away in the 1972 flood.
The golden age of Roricks was from 1901 to 1917. It was unique in two ways. First, no liquor was sold. Second, Roricks became an artistic center quite unlike any similar development. Roricks catered strictly to the family trade. There were always free unreserved seats for the street car patrons, and those who had more money to spend had season tickets in the reserved section. There were attractive picnic grounds where many families dined before the performance.
The 1,200-seat theater at Roricks was a large, open-air theater well suited for its purpose. A wide porch served as a lobby. The auditorium was open on three sides and canvas could be lowered or raised as the weather dictated. Baskets of ferns swung in the arches, and urns filled with geraniums flanked the entrance. Backstage there was valuable scenery and rain and snow making machinery. It was advertised as the most elaborate open-air playhouse in the country.
In 1947 the Boy Scouts took over the property as a camp ground. The dance pavilion, used in the 1960s as a Boy Scout facility, was burned as a safety measure, early in 1976."
-Thomas Byrne, Chemung County History to 1975
Follow the overhead power lines to the river and you can see the old bridge piers. One has recently fallen over.
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