Frances Willard Park Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 6/2/2011
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:

This cache is part of the 2011 Cache In - Coin Out challenge. This year's challenge will go from June 11th to September 30th, or until coins run out. Event rules and coins can be found at the Glendive Chamber of Commerce and the Makoshika State Park Visitor's Center.

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This cache is a small lock 'n' lock container with room for a few small trade items. First to find prize is a lotto ticket.



The idea to put a fountain in the triangle where Bell Street, Douglas Street, and Meade Avenue came together, originated at a Jan. 10, 1910 meeting of the Glendive Women's Club but was actually carried out by members of Glendive's chapter of the Women's Christian Temperance Union.The club formed a committee to investigate starting a park "inside our city gates," they never followed through with their plans and the WCTU women picked up the idea. The park was named after Frances Willard, who was president of the national WCTU from 1879 to 1898.

The WCTU website notes that, in 1874, the national WCTU organization started encouraging local groups to erect drinking fountains in their towns "so that men could get a drink of water without entering saloons and staying for stronger drinks."

According to information from the Frontier Gateway Museum, a new sign for the Frances Willard Park was put up in 1964. Neither fountain was working at the time, but it was noted that old-timers could remember when the large basin was used as a watering place for horses and the iron fountain was a working drinking fountain.

The fountain was restored in May 2010 by members of the community.

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