Bega School Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 8/12/2009
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:

What you are looking for here is a Locking Tupperware container but it isn't out in the open! It has room to trade small items, a log and pencils are provided.

The first settlers arrived at Bega on June 24, 1870. Most of them had traveled to Bega from Mora, Sweden. Once they had traveled as far as Fremont which was as far as the railroad extended at the time, they acquired wagons and made their way to Bega with the help of a Swedish surveyor. They homesteaded to Bega sight unseen and if it hadn’t been for the surveyor they may not have found where their town was to be. The correct distance to the settlement was determined by tying a handkerchief to the wheel on one of the wagons and then counting the revolutions of the wheel.

They slept under their wagons until they could make their dugout homes. They had and needed little furniture and what they did have was mostly handmade. The first frame house was built in 1880 with lumber which came from the Elkhorn Valley. The residents raised watermelons, pumpkins, wheat and corn. The wheat and corn was hauled to Elmont (later to become Wisner) for milling and sale. Later there was a mill built in Norfolk where the residents also took their grains.

The Omaha Indians passed by Bega twice a year in those days as they moved east in the fall and west in the spring to their hunting grounds. The Indians had camping grounds both a mile northwest and a mile south of the Bega School. The population of Bega was 60 in 1880 and it had a freight office along with its post office and a black smith shop.

The Bega Post Office was established in 1879 in the home of Andrew Johnson Sr. and his son took over as postmaster until the post office was closed in 1902 when rural delivery was established. After the post office closed the population declined even though many of the original families still reside on the surrounding farms.

The Bega School began as a dugout in 1872. In 1873 a sod house with a board roof which caught fire and was demolished a year or two later. A frame school house was built in 1876 and was used for 42 years. The school served also as a church in the 1890s and 1900s. In 1918, Bega was a large district and the community voted to build a two room school with two years of high school. High school was discontinued in 1947 and the grade school continued until 1969. This is the school house you see in Bega today!

The Bega Board which now oversees the property has given permission for these Geocaches to be placed on the property so let us help them retain this little bit of history that remains out there for us all! Please help to take care of it by closing gates behind you and respecting the property as if it were your own. Cache In, Trash Out!

Enjoy this little bit of History!

The cache contents at the time of placing were:
Log
3 pencils
Miniature UNO Game
Nucor Recycle Keychain
VIC University Keychain
Official token of the Texas Georodders

Congratulations to Lighthouselookers for FTF!

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

V nz nyy "gvrq" hc!

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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