Keighley Travel Bug Learning Center Traditional Cache

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

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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This School was built in 1948 but Keighley has been on the map for much longer than that. At one time this was a bustling little town, Now mostly just a farming community with a neat little convenience store. I am a little reluctant to call it a ghost town because of it's appearent activity.

Your looking for a stocked ammo can with a head mounted light for FTF. There is a pencil to sign the log book.

I thought I would do something really cool for my 50th cache placement but I didn't. I did put out an ammo can. For me that is somewhat different.


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 from1857 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.  No information about these towns exists yet.  I will post information as it comes available. 

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 exerpt was taken from that book.

GLENCOE TOWNSHIP
By L. D. Hadley.

What! Shall I write the history of a township? I, a beardless youth with matted hair? Wait! Hold on, old boy, look in the glass. Well, no wonder, when I stop to think, it was more than thirty years ago since I first cast my eyes on the beautiful prairie that constitutes Glencoe township. My first night was spent in the little village of Keighley. On inquiry I found that this town had been platted and deeded by Moses Turpen and Josephine, his wife, August 16, 1880, the same year the Frisco railroad was built, who, by the way, were at this time living in a dug-out or sod house just south of town. These were pious people of Mormon Faith—some of their descendants still live in Butler county. Perhaps the most striking character in the village was Uncle Stephen Thurman, who, for many years, kept hotel; but time has moved him and his good wife on and out. Of the older people living near Keighley, we might mention Allen Brown and wife, both deceased now. A number of their descendants are now figuring in the game of life in and near the town; also John Brown, Alex Husk, H. M. Taylor, the Paynes, G. W. Miller, John McRitchie, Blankenbaker, Benjamin Fillmore and many others who served their time well, but now deceased. 1 believe the oldest settler of Glencoe township now living is Joel Parker, who still resides where he did thirty or more years ago. John Hoover, who drove his covered wagon into grass as high as the wagon itself and drove the stake on his claim, which was his home for many years afterward, is living in Oklahoma. F. J. B. King, now of El Dorado, was close to the first settler in the township. W. B. Keith was an old soldier and prominent township politician, will be remembered by many.

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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

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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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