Verging on a ghost town Traditional Cache
3pollyc: More than a year since tyhis cache was found so decided to take it out of circulation. Got to the location and found the host completely gone and with it the cache.
So we will permanently archive this one. Thanks to those who took the time to get off the beaten path and made the find when it was here.
Oh well, one less to worry about maintaining!
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Another stop along Hwy. 20 Please bring your own pen. Accuracy at the time of placement was plus/minus eight feet.
Lockwood is a former village located just off Hwy. 20 Homesteaders began arriving in the district in 1905 and by 1907 most of the available land in the area was taken. Those who settled in the vicinity were of diverse origins and came from many places: eastern Canada, the British Isles, the United States and Russia. With the construction of the CPR line from Strassburg to Lanigan in 1907, the community of Lockwood – named after one of the railway company’s passenger agents – had its beginnings. In 1907, the railway station was built, the first elevators erected and the first other few businesses began to spring up on the town site. The Lockwood Post Office was established March 14, 1908. August 18, 1908 Lockwood was incorporated as a village. The school was built that same year as was the Lockwood Hotel (lost in a fire in 1951). In 1909, the Northern Crown Bank opened a branch in the community. Presbyterians built the first church in 1911 and at that time the village’s population was approximately 100. By the 1920s, the community had its own band, football team, baseball club and hockey team. The village reached a peak population of 150 by 1931. Following WWII Lockwood’s population began a slow decline. It the late 1960s it began to fall rapidly – from 89 in 1966 to 60 by 1971. In 1967, the community still had Pool and Federal grain elevators, a general store, a garage and implement dealership, a bulk oil station, a school with two teacherages; and Lockwood also had active sports teams, a community hall, a Legion hall, a curling rink and an indoor skating arena completed that year as a Canadian Centennial project. June 30, 1967, over 700 people attended the community’s Centennial celebration. But during the 1960s, the village’s churches began to close due to declining memberships and rooms at Lockwood School closed due to low enrollment. By 1981, the village was down to 38 residents. The last grain elevator was demolished in 1999 and today Lockwood is on the verge of becoming a ghost town. The community relinquished village status January 1, 2002 and its affairs are now under the management of the RM of Usborne No. 310.
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