Manhattan Landing Traditional Cache
molar one: I will consider placing a new one in this area when the city completes the levee work.
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This cache is hidden along a high traffic area for mountain bikers about 150 feet off the Linear Trail near the Kansas River. Stealth required at times. You are looking for a small (4 x 6), painted lock-n-lock container. The terrain rating is due to loose rocks, soft dirt, and dead leaves; worse when wet. The cache is about 4/10 mile from the parking coordinates.
Do you know how this city came to be called Manhattan?
In June of 1855, the steamboat Hartford ran aground in the Kansas River with 75 settlers from Ohio on board. Their original destination had been twenty miles further upstream, where Junction City stands today. But here they discovered a large Kaw Indian Village and a settlement called Boston.
In the fall of 1854 George Park founded the first Euro-American settlement in present day Manhattan and named it Polistra. Later that year Samuel Houston founded another community near the mouth of the Big Blue River that he named Canton. Neither settlement ever grew beyond the first few individuals who founded it.
In March 1855 a group of New England Free-Staters traveled to the Kansas Territory under the auspices of the New England Emigrant Aid Company to found a Free-State town. They were led by Isaac Goodnow and selected the location of the Polistra and Canton claims for the Aid Company’s new settlement. Goodnow was soon joined by his brother-in-law Joseph Denison. After the New Englanders arrived, in April 1855 the various groups agreed to join into one settlement and named it Boston.
Then in June, when the Hartford ran aground, the passengers accepted the offer to join the new town but insisted that it be renamed Manhattan. This was done on June 29, 1855 and the city of Manhattan was incorporated on May 30, 1857. The nickname “The Little Apple” was first used around 1977.
CONGRATULATIONS TO LEGOLAWS FOR FIRST TO FIND!
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