Due South-BTTCAR1 Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 9/4/2010
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:


The story of any place is the story of its people.

As you look across the road and due south to Round Hill, your eye is traveling across land that was once owned by the very energetic and entrepreneurial Emile Bosmans and his wife Minnie.

Emile was a rancher in the Bittern Lake area. He and Minnie moved their stock in 1900 to this area for its good water. Emile homesteaded a section of land and persuaded Minnie to apply for the land you see as her homestead in 1902.

Emile and Minnie ran a trading post from their log cabin, called Bosman's Place. The trading post served a large area and in 1907 they built a bigger frame building as a cheese factory, house and store and added a post office. The post office was called Round Hill and Emile was its first postmaster. The Bosmans also owned a feed mill and sold a line of farm equipment.

Minnie donated 7 acres of her homestead that same year to ensure a railway station was constructed at Round Hill on the line being built between Wetaskiwin and Vegreville. The present townsite was later laid out on additional land purchased from Minnie. The store established by the Bosmans was still in business until just before the close of the Second World War.

People are the roots from which communities grow.

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