Duvall's Big Rock Traditional Geocache

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Hidden : 5/1/2010
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

This cache is located in Big Rock Park in Duvall. You are looking for a small, camo’d bison.



About Big Rock park
Big Rock Park contains a large glacial erratic (the big rock) and two large sequoia trees thought to be almost 100 years old. The rock was placed here by a mile-high glacier almost 10,000 years ago.

There are multiple theories as to who planted the trees. Probably the most accurate is that T.R. Hopkins provided the sequoia seedlings, sometime in the early 1900s. A horticulturist and nurseryman who ran a small tree farm in Duvall, Hopkins was considered a sort of Johnny Appleseed of the Pacific Northwest. He operated a nursery in Seattle and was known for giving customers small plants and seedlings to plant. In a similar vein, T.R. Hopkins hauled a redwood tree to Bellevue in a horse-drawn wagon and planted it at Northeast Eighth Street and 104th Avenue Northeast in the early 1900s. Another story has a couple of school teachers from Duvall visiting in California in the early 1900s and bringing the sequoia seedlings from there. Others suggest Leo Herzog, a friend of Hopkins, helped plant the trees. Still others say Leo Leyde, who lived on Northeast Big Rock Road decades ago, planted the trees.

This is also the location of the old Big Rock Road, which was re-routed when the nearby shopping center was built.

Be sure to find the nearby benchmark SX0872.

About Duvall from Wikipedia
The area, which later became known as Duvall, was historically the home of the Snoqualmie and other ancestral Tulalip tribes. Following their relocation under the Treaty of Point Elliott and after the Civil War, the area was homesteaded by veterans. The area that became the center of present-day Duvall was on a hillside homesteaded in the 1870’s by Francis and James Duvall, the city's namesake.

An early milestone in the settlement of Duvall proper was the relocation of the town of Cherry Valley around 1909, when the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad agreed to move Cherry Valley homes and businesses to Duvall in order to continue the construction of a railroad line along the Snoqualmie River. The newly-relocated town (briefly named Cosgrove after Samuel G. Cosgrove) underwent a real estate boom; streets and sidewalks were laid and a train depot was constructed. It was followed by a movie house, a drug store, a new schoolhouse, and several hotels. By 1911, the Duvall Citizen began publishing. Duvall was officially incorporated on January 7, 1913.

For more history on Duvall, visit Historylink.org.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Srapr, oryyl uvtu.

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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