This is a not a rehide but a new cache with a new GC, so you can get credit for a find even if you came here for "Saturday in the Park". The old location was bulldozed. Not many choice hiding spots here
There are several reasons I am really proud to be able to place a cache in this location.
First, it brings you to one of Burlington's oldest residential buildings. This structure predates the Civil War
In 1848 John K. Gray purchased this lot and opened a second location for his very prosperous carriage and sleigh business. He called his business "The Carriage Works".
The Carriage Works included a blacksmith's shop for the carriages' iron and five years worth of lumber stored in a separate building. After Gray's death, the main building was turned into apartments in 1885 and by 1900 the lumber sheds and blacksmith shop were gone.
The large brick structure that remains today was the manufactory where the blacksmith shop was housed. Surprisingly, the manufactory itself remains largely intact. It has been functioning as an apartment building for over 125 years. Under this great old building is a fabulous dirt floor basement. It is a maze of dank smelling rooms, with heavy air and an ever-present chill. (The creepy kind of place I
like)
On a lighter note, another reason to visit this cache is the wonderful new mural on the side of this building which is a collaboration between a local artist and the King Street Youth Center. The artist, Gina, painted everything higher than six feet,but the children of the youth center painted everything lower than six feet. At the time of this cache placement, the mural is still incomplete. The work -in-progress is a depiction of the community gardens located here in this pocket park, which brings me to a third reason to visit here.
If you are here in late spring, summer, or early autumn, you will get to enjoy the gardens tended by the community and the youth from the Center.
Lastly, I am glad to place a cache here because I live in this fabulous old building. If you feel uncomfortable caching in such a "public" place, don't worry. I can assure you, those of us who live here do not watch the park or the visitors. There are more exciting things to do than sit and wait for cachers to seek in my yard. Besides I am probably not home but am out hiding caches!