Stealthman: Meacham Park – S:MP Traditional Cache
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Stealthman: Meacham Park – S:MP
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Stealthman: Meacham Park – S:MP
Standard platic micro with string. Yes, it is where you think it is. I tried to give you as much cover from muggle eyes as possible. Wear your stealth gear so this one doesn't go missing. Happy Caching.
Please park on the street and not at the local business close by.
This land is Kirkwood Property and at the entrance to the Meacham Park neighborhood. Here is some of its rich history:
Meacham Park was established in 1892 when Elzey Eugene Meacham, a real estate speculator from Memphis, Tennesse purchased 158.61 acres for $33,308. Meacham named the area after himself. The land was divided into 25 foot lots and sold mostly to people, and some of the early settlers in Meacham Park were farmers.
Meacham Park was a thriving interracial neighborhood until well after WWI. Meacham Park was an unincorporated part of St. Louis County until the 1991 annexation into Kirkwood.
1892 – Elzey E. Meacham purchases land and begins to sell lots
1896 – Sandy Spears, a farmer and real estate broker, is the first African American to live in Meacham Park
1912 – George Cabiness opens the first store in Meacham Park
1919 – D.M. Powell opens a grocery store and becomes a prominent businessman in Meacham Park
1921 – New Booker T. Washington School built
1924 – Meacham Park School opens; renovated in 1938; later known as the J. Milton Turner School
1930 – D.M. Powell organizes the “Powell’s Grocery” baseball team.
1951 – Joe Cole founds Club 44 with the Kirkwood YMCA
1968 – Construction on I-44 takes some land from the Southeast corner of Meacham Park
1968 – William “Bill” Jones starts publishing In Our Opinion, a newspaper
1991 – Meacham Park annexed into Kirkwood (approval of 83% of Meacham Park and 72% of Kirkwood voters)
1999 – Kirkwood Commons open
Good luck, happy caching, and beware of muggles.
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Congratulations and FTF honors to FOREST-GHOST
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