College Hill Park (and grab?) Traditional Cache
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College Hill Park (and grab?)
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This is a micro in College Hill Park; log only -
bring a writing
utensil.
This hide is located close to the archived Poughkeepsie's Diamond
In The Rough cache (GCYANN). This cache was originally named FTF
Challenge "GrayK" due to redrumNYHC's FTF Challenge series, but I
renamed it after the park on 9/8/09.
College Hill Park is open from 6am-9pm. You can choose to cache and
dash or enjoy the park and trails. A little northwest of the hide
you'll find the Dudley Memorial Pavilion. There are views of the
Shawangunks and the Catskills. You can also see the Mid-Hudson
Bridge and the Hudson Highlands. It's an easy walk to the cache,
but the terrain is rated 1.5 because it's not wheelchair
accessible.
You're looking for a micro in an unconventional container. Please
take note of how the cache is placed and be careful when
retrieving/replacing it. To prevent damage to the cache, please
DO NOT remove the micro from the container. You'll know what
I mean when you find it.
"Here are some details about the history of this park, from a 1996
Poughkeepsie Journal story by Matt Williams:
In 1836, educator Charles Bartlett first visited what was then
called Adriance's Hill and remarked that it would be a beautiful
site for a school.
Forty thousand dollars and one year later, a classical,
Parthenon-inspired building - the home of the Poughkeepsie
Collegiate School - stood at the hill's summit.
Bartlett died 20 years later and College Hill was never an
educational facility again. It was auctioned to George Morgan, who
tried - unsuccessfully - to turn the school building into a
hotel.
In subsequent years, John Guy Vassar, of Vassar Brothers fame,
bought the building in a failed attempt to turn it into an
orphanage. After he died, it was purchased by William Smith, who
donated the land to the city to be used as a park.
In 1917, the old school building was destroyed by fire.
In 1936, the present edifice was built where the school used to
stand, thanks to a gift from Poughkeepsie banker and industrialist
Guilford Dudley.
He left in his will $22,000 to the city to erect a monumental
pavilion atop College Hill to be known as the Shelter, for the free
use of the public.
Another improvement to the park was made around this time with the
construction of the Alexander Caven Memorial Golf Course, which
opened in 1933."
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