Sandy Creek Traditional Cache
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A bison tube. Please
do not drive past the gate.
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From The Handbook of Texas Online:
SANDY CREEK, TEXAS. Sandy Creek, a rural community near U.S.
Highway 79 four miles west of Milano in southeastern Milam County,
was named after a nearby stream. In 1869 the Sandy Creek Baptist
Church acquired land in the José Leal survey. Sandy Creek became a
voting precinct in 1892, and in 1903 the community had a
two-teacher school with sixty-two students. The school was
consolidated with the Milano Independent School District in 1931. A
church and a cemetery marked the location of Sandy Creek on the
1988 county highway map.
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We visited Sandy Creek often when I was a child. It was one of the
places where I had the privilege of experiencing an outhouse. The
outhouse is long gone but the reminders of the past lie everywhere
around. I know the place well and will probably move there forever
someday.
My dad often told the story of when he was nine (almost ten) years
old how he could easily reach all the way around what is now a very
large tree near the cache location. That was a day that changed his
life forever.
He also told the story of when his father was a child and the
family was moving from the east. There was some type of accident
(possibly during a river crossing) and the entire family was killed
except for two kids. My grandfather and his sister, who was 3 years
younger than he was, were going to be “adopted out” to the other
families that were traveling with them. The night before they were
to be separated, my grandfather snuck away with his younger sister
and they made it to Texas where they both survived and raised large
families.
Extra Smiley
Potential!: If you can email
me the names of my father, his father and my great aunt you can
claim an extra smiley. All the info you need is in this description
and within 30 feet of the cache.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
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