Redcliff Rocks ....Aylissa Traditional Cache
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Redcliff Rocks ....Aylissa
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Today most of the original industrial sites are no more, being replaced by parks and residential subdivisions. It is the wish of the Redcliff Museum to identify these sites as it was the industrial invasion of the early 1900s that made Redcliff what it is today. With this in mind, the Museum has placed rock monuments near where these industries were situated, enabling those visiting Redcliff to realize what an industrial, thriving community Redcliff was in the early years of the last century.
Although there has been an established industry here since the early 1880s, it wasn't until 1906 that the area became populated by people from afar. In 1883 a man by the name of Bayliss established a coal mine just to the west of the present town. At about the same time one of the Stair Ranches was established in the immediate area. Both concerns lasted only a few years. Finding it too costly to pack up and leave, the Bayliss interests disposed of the mine equipment by shoving it down the mine shaft, later to catch fire and smolder for many years.
Up until the early 1970s the smoke from the mine could be seen to the west of town where the mine office and buildings were located. This coal pile was visible up until the late 1970s until erosion from wind and rain reduced it to a patch of black coal dust. The only visible sign of anything being in operation there is a few rocks that show where the mine office was located and the disturbance of the coulees where the rail line went to the mine entrance.
You will be looking for a camo'ed Micro..... TWIST to open.
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