BFTHGT: Standard Glass Traditional Cache
Keystone: As the owner has not responded to my prior note, I am archiving this listing.
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This is one of 20 historical caches along the Butler Freeport Community Trail, formerly the Butler Branch of the Western Pennsylvania Railroad. So grab your passport, provided in the cache box, enter the keyword. Then attend an event or send to the address on the passport to purchase a trackable, custom geocoin. Any questions, please e-mail president@butlerfreeporttrail.org
First event coins are available is May 15th,
THIS SERIES OF CACHES ARE ONLY ACCESSIBLE VIA THE BUTLER FREEPORT TRAIL. There is plenty of parking at each trailhead. DO NOT DRIVE ON THE TRAIL, you may hike or bike to each cache. Passports are now downloadable on www.butlerfreeporttrail.org
Father Marinaro Park wasn’t always a park, in its former life it was the site of Standard Plate Glass Company founded in 1887. It was Butler’s first industry that could compete on a national level. Butler having an abundant supply of natural gas made plate glass making a profitable industry. In 1932 Franklin Glass purchased the company operating for 25 years before it closed for good. The recipe for glass is silica (sand) (which was mined in another location along the trail south of Cabot), soda (potash), arsenic (used to take the bubbles out) and lime heated until molten glass is formed then a gob was added to the end of a blowpipe and blown by craftsmen into a final product vases, bowls, plates, bottles and even window glass and mirrors.
For more information read The Standard Plate Glass Company by Ray D. Hoffman
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