Haverhill Traditional Cache
Hidden : 3/19/2009
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

This is part of the Butler Ghost Town Series. Your looking for an ammo can with a really cool magnetic lantern for FTF.

Haverhill still has a couple of buildings standing that were part of the old town. The foundation of the train depot is still next to the tracks. The town is just west across the road from the cache.
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.  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.

SPRING TOWNSHIP. By M. L. Arnold.

Among the important accounts in the early history of Spring township was the building of the St. 'Louis & San Francisco railroad in .the summer of 1880. The establishment of a general store at Haverhill in the same year by the late Joseph W. Brown was another important event. From a small beginning Mr. Brown built up a good business and prospered. For twenty-five years he was agent for the Frisco at Haverhill, at the time of his retirement being in point of service the oldest agent of the road between St. Louis and Wichita. Mr. Brown always took an active part in public affairs, was a man of strong personality and always stood for what he thought was right and for the best interests of the community. Before his death he sold his stock of goods to McDowell Brothers, who conduct the business at the present time. The store was a favorite meeting place for the exchange of ideas, gossip and the discussion of all kinds of subjects. The man who would do his trading and hurry away was looked upon with a little suspicion.

H.H. Leonard, now of Wichita, and one of the finest citizens any community ever had, for many years held the checker championship of the store. He perhaps did not always play the best game, but played more of them. It was here that the first Haverhill base ball team was organized under the leadership of Will Glaze and for many years Haverhill has had one of the best teams in the county. J. C. Greer, who still ambles around first base with as much agility, if not quite as much grace, as he did twenty years ago, is the only member of this first team who still plays. J. C. Glaze, now one of the prosperous farmers of Spring township, at one time conducted a store at Haverhill. In 1902, C. R. Marshall and Sam Frank opened a general store at Haverhill. This business was successfully conducted in turn by Frank, J. B. and E. L. Marshall until 1915, when it was closed out by E. L. Marshall, that he might devote all of his time to his veterinary practice.

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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

2 sbbg hc

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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