PONY EXPRESS Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 11/4/2011
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

This is a Micro cache so you will BYOP.

Over the last century we have gone from the poney express to train mail to airmail to email. What's is next I wonder.

On December 9th, 1848, this item appeared in the British Colonist, a three-times-a-week newspaper published in Halifax, Nova Scotia. During the ten months that elapsed between the completion, in January 1849, of this telegraph line between Saint John and Calais, and the completion in November 1849 of the telegraph extension between Saint John and Halifax, the New York Associated Press needed a fast courier service to carry the European News across the telegraph gap between Halifax and Saint John. This need led Daniel Craig and Hiram Hyde to organize the fast horse courier service then called the Halifax Express, later known as the Nova Scotia Pony Express, combined with a chartered steamship service across the Bay of Fundy.

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