Vaughan Traditional Cache

This cache has been archived.

Reviewer Smith: As I have not heard from the cache owner within the requested time frame, the cache is being archived.

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Hidden : 7/22/2009
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

Accessible from sidewalk. STAY NORTH OF FENCE.

The history we brought you here for is actually across the street (See additional waypoint).

Phineas W. T. Vaughan is credited with devising the hand operated machinery used for making Joseph Glidden's barbed wire in 1874.

Born in 1827, he moved here in June of 1851. The shop across the street was his blacksmith shop, where he invented the machine, up until the time of his death in 1897. The site, in front of the building that most recently used to house McCabe's, is marked with a horseshoe embedded in the sidewalk by Vaughan himself.

He is buried not far from here at Evergreen Cemetery where his grave is marked using his blacksmith's anvil.

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