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PB #7 -- Eau, Juliana! II Traditional Cache

This cache has been archived.

Ceolmhor: Regrettably, I'm archiving this cache. It is indeed missing. This is the fifth time it has disappeared from three different locations on this site. I'm not getting to Ada as often as I used to, and I can't maintain the cache adequately under these circumstances. At least it had a good run. [:)]

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Hidden : 5/31/2011
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

You're looking for a nano in a small, urban memorial park.


There are several interesting things to note about pleasant little Juliana Park. This site was originally occupied by a hotel. Called the Harris Hotel when it was built in 1903, it was initially two stories tall, and acquired a third story sometime before the late 1910's, when this photo was taken:



In the 1930's, the hotel was purchased by Julia Mae Smith. She and her husband had struck oil near Fittstown, and engaged in many business activities in Ada. She renamed the hotel the Juliana Hotel (after her own name), and the park is named for that hotel. The hotel occupied the site for several more decades, and had, shall we say, an interesting reputation in its latter days.

There's a monument here celebrating Bird's Mill Spring, the spring that provides the water for the City of Ada. There's a plaque on that monument that contains a poem on that subject, "Ode to Bird's Mill Spring". Finally, there's a time capsule buried beneath the "Juliana Park" sign. You can read about it there.

Okiebryan had a cache here before he moved away from the Ada area, and he used the title of the poem as his cache name. I thought the site was interesting enough to deserve a cache, but decided to emphasize other aspects of the park. After my cache was there for awhile, the tree it was in was removed by the city. I replaced it with a really interesting hide, but the object it was placed on has also been removed. I've therefore replaced the hide again, with an ordinary nano in a fairly predictable spot. Along the way, I archived my "Eau, Juliana!" cache here, so you will be able to take a crack at this new hide. Hope you enjoy it.

Although the owner lives in Colorado, he has family connections with Ada, visits Ada monthly, and has enjoyed geocaching here. This series is intended as payback (hence, "PB") to the local geocaching community.

Congratulations to Team2M&M for the FTF!

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