This place use to be the home of a TB depot, but I have since
had to move it because of high muggle traffic. But because the
place was kinda cool, I still wanted to bring you here to check it
out. Pretty easy magnetic.
This cache is in memory of my Grandparents who owned and operated
the Travelers Motor Hotel in Walterboro, South Carolina. My
Grandfather, Jack Leonardi, started in Orlando, Fl. as a night
clerk at the “Orange Court”. After managing several hotels on Miami
Beach, they moved to Walterboro and became the owners of several
motels in town. But the Travelers is the one I knew the best
because it became my very first home after I was born and a summer
visiting place for many years. Motels and motor courts became very
popular during the 1940s. People liked the motel idea because they
could park their cars right in front of their rooms and they didn't
have to pay a porter to take their suitcases up to their rooms.
Also, they did not have to pay parking fees to park their cars over
night. In St. Augustine, motels sprang up along US 1, which was, at
the time, the main highway from north to south. The prosperity of
these family owned motels declined rapidly when I 95 was built and
bypassing the once popular "stop over" towns along Route US # 1.
St. Augustine was no exception and now fifty years later, most of
the motels melted into history as was the case of this cache site.
While on site take note of the old motel remains and the huge trees
that must have shaded many a tourist.
This cache was placed by a member of the
Northeast Florida Geocachers
Association