Clappison's Busy Corner Traditional Cache
dex4: Archived due to construction
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Located at the top of the Clappison Cut, on the corner of the intersection of Highways 5 and 6 North, the unique B-Hive Restaurant was witness to more than 50 years of highway travel, catering to a wide clientele, from the occasional Sunday driver to long distance truck drivers.
The B-hive was across the road from the cache site
This intersection, still known as Clappison's Corners, has served the needs of travellers for over 150 years.
In the late 1850s, a small settlement began just a couple of miles west of the village of Waterdown, around the present-day intersection, serving the travellers along Dundas Street.
A stagecoach hotel, The Wayside Inn, was established and operated by Thomas and Mary Clappison and later by their son. The hotel served as a rest stop for travellers and as the local post office.
By the 1880s, the community had grown to include three hotels, a blacksmith shop and general store, catering to the regular east-west stagecoach traveller, with connections northwards via the Brock Road.
Just as the demise of the hotels at Clappison's Comers came from changes in highway travel, so the demise of the B-Hive Restaurant came in the 1980s, when it failed to compete with competition from the fastfood chains and modem service stations that sprang up.
The cache is hidden near the remains of Big John's building.
Cache is small and the hide is sneaky.
Bring a pen
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Tebhaq yriry