Sycamore Springs Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 3/17/2009
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

Sycamore Springs is part of the Butler Ghost Town Series. This cache is placed just across the street and a little west of the old Post Office that sat in Sycamore Springs. All that is left of that is a hole in the ground that was the basement foundation. Be sure to check out the stone arch bridge caches south of here. They were most certainly paths to and from Sycamore Springs, Chelsea, and El Dorado. You are looking for a cammoed match container.

The map below was taken from the Digitized maps library at WSU. It is a map dating to 1887.


Columbia is the first town in Butler county that appears on a map dating to 1856. Later maps dating from 1857 show Chelsea and El Dorado, with Chelsea having the larger population.  As you can see in this zoomed in view there were a number of ghost towns dotting the map no longer on current maps.  The name above and coordinates take you to a spot near the location on the map. 

You may read about Butler county by clicking on the link The History of Butler County. The book was first published in 1916. It was written by Vol. P. Mooney. The copyright has since expired and it is now free domain.

The following excerpt was taken from that book.

Prospect Township

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

haqre ebpx

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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