Riverside "Old Mill Stream" Traditional Cache

This cache has been archived.

yogi57: When I rehid the cache to this tree knothole I was able reached inside easily. When I stuck my hand in to see if the cache was still there I got my hand stuck and the container wouldn’t fit anymore. I guessed the tree growth slowly closed the hole. If I put a smaller container I would have to attach something that would stick out of the hole to grabbed the container. So I’m archiving the cache. This will give someone else an opportunity to hide one in great park.

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

Size: Size: small (small)

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As of now you're looking for a small lock&lock container.

I really like this park and I want to get cachers back to the park. Some of you might rember my multi that I had here "Tell Taylor" but I archived it because muggles keep finding it.



Tell Taylor was a comedy actor, and composer of more than 21 sentimental songs, the best known "Down by the Old Mill Stream". The song, words and music, were written and published about 1910 while Taylor was teaching rural school, and made popular by the vaudeville team, "The Orpheus Comedy Four" who first used it in that year. More than 5,000,000 copies have been sold since it was first published.

Taylor was born on a farm 5 miles east of Findlay in 1876. The Blanchard River, which he swam as a boy, was the original "Mill Stream". The old Misamore Mill at the bridge is gone but the site is still visible. On one of his trips to Findlay, in 1908, Tell decided to go fishing along the Blanchard River, as he often did. He began to think about his childhood and the romantic dreamer in him took over. He thought of the girl he once loved and of an old mill that once thrived but had since been abandoned. He jotted down some lines that reflected his thoughts from that afternoon of fishing. For two years that song would lay in drawer all but forgotten. Two years later, Tell would finally publish "Down By the Old Mill Stream." It became his most popular song.

As a young man Tell sang in church choirs in Findlay and was often called to neighboring towns to give programs. While singing at the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, he was engaged for a musical comedy which began his long vaudeville career.

He established the Tell Taylor Music Publishing House at 177 North State Street, Chicago, where he made his headquarters and lived some years. He returned to Findlay to live the last years of his life. At the time of his death (1937) he was en route to Los Angeles to assist in the production of a moving picture based on his famous song, but was stricken by a heart attack in Chicago. He is buried in Van Horn Cemetery at Findlay.

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