Broward History Tour - River Rats Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 10/13/2010
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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My dad's graduation photo

Our family moved to South Florida from New York in 1974, the school was still operating where Presidential Circle is today. We would go to the school and there were still officers and teachers there from when my dad was a student

I started working in the area in 1992 and do not exactly rememeber when the last buildings were torn down. In 2004 my dad went to his 50th reunion at the remaining campus in Georgia. His graduating class had one of the highest number of alumni attending the reunion, I keep telling Zach he better straighten up or he will be heading to Georgia himself.

I hope you enjoy this little bit of history here.

Riverside was chartered August 23, 1906, by Brenau College professors A.W. Van Hoose and H.J. Pearce. In 1907, they purchased 25 acres of land on the west side of Riverside Drive, which was then two miles north of Gainesville, Georgia and half a mile from the Chattahoochee River.

Construction on the academy began in 1907 with plans to open the school that fall. However, due to construction delays, the school did not open until September 1908. In 1913, Pearce and Van Hoose hired Sandy Beaver to be Riverside's head of school. Beaver would go on to acquire ownership of the school in 1915 and preside over its growth until his death in 1969.

Riverside operated a winter campus in Hollywood, Florida for more than fifty years. In 1931, Sandy Beaver purchased the Hollywood Hills Hotel in south Florida. With the exception of a brief time during World War II when the Navy used the Florida campus as a training facility, the school's cadets and staff would spend January through March at the Florida campus and the remainder of the school year would take place in Gainesville.

Facing tremendous commercial development in the area surrounding its Florida campus, the academy sold that property in 1984 to dedicate resources to the renovation of the Gainesville campus.


Some Notable Alumni

James Earl Carter, Sr., father of U.S. President Jimmy Carter (attended 1911)
George P. Oslin, inventor of the singing telegram (1913)
Everett Strupper, leading scorer in the Georgia Tech 222, Cumberland 0 football game of 1916 and a member of the College Football Hall of Fame (1914)
Football coach Red Sanders (1923)
Baseball player Johnny Riddle (1926)
Roger Lewis, first president of Amtrak (1928)
Jazz man Arturo "Chico" O'Farrill (1938)
Football coach Tommy Prothro (1938)
Leroy B. Raffel, co-founder of Arby's fast-food chain (1944)
Howard A. Kalmenson, founder, president and CEO of Lotus Communications Corporation (1949)
American professional golfer Bobby Greenwood (attended 1957)
Rocky Lanz, USA Winter Olympic-Worldcup Bobsledder (1990)

Beware of muggles during certain times of the day as it may be busy.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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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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