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

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

Quito is part of the Butler Ghost Town series. This little town is certainly deserving of a cache. The Badd One placed a cache in the cemetary named after the town so I hid one just a little West of there. I don't think you can use the restrooms anymore but I was very curious. Your looking for a match container. Please put it back just the way you found it or the next person might not get tired of looking for it.

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 ercerpts were taken from that book.

It will be seen that the Lambdin brothers were considered quite wealthy. Think of 160 acres of the best bottom land and eighty-six head of cattle worth only $3,500 "Amos Richardson," the writer continues, "has a claim, a family, a frame house and three acres broke; made several hundred rails this winter and smokes his pipe in leisure hours. He is a number one man and ought to be a J. P. He would be insulted if one should offer him less than $1,200 for his claim. His brother occupies the next ranch, has a frame house, three acres broke (this means the sod turned over with a 'breaking' plow) and that he is a son of a thief if he can be euchred out of his claim for less than $600. He is recommended for P. M. at Quito and will soon open an extensive stock of dry goods and groceries in that city. By the way, fearing people may not find the city, it is located on the N. E. 1/4 of the S. E. 1/4 of section 11-27-6.

The first village to have a blacksmith shop, a drug store and a physician, Dr. I—— —.was at the junction of the north and south branches of the Little Walnut in the fall of 1872. Some notable meetings were held there. One held during the winter of 1872-1873 was supposed to be epoch making. Two narrow gauge railroads were pro- projected to cross at that particular point. They were to be built and owned by the people. Neil Wilkie. of Douglass, afterward a State Senator, and C. W. Packard, of North P>ranch, were the chief speakers. The proposed city was christened New Milwaukee. But the roads never got as far as the bond voting age, and the christener kept the key and stubbed his toe, so you all know Quito.

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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

gbc bs cbfg haqre gver

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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