From this cache you can see the Washington Waterworks building which was first built in 1889, after many city meetings. The town of Washington had no active plumbing system until this time except for the neighbors of Henry Tibbe. Henry had set op an ornate water tank with a windmill to pump the water into the tank. In 1886 his tank also supplied water for other families in the Fourth and Cedar Streets area.
Originally, water was pumped from the river into a large reservoir on the south side of Front Street (between Jefferson and Lafayette Streets). From this holding tank, the water flowed by gravity back to the Waterworks and into an open reservoir on the east side of the building (now covered by soil in the park area). The water was then pumped into the pipes serving the community. A stand-pipe, holding 125, 000 gallons of reserve water was located on Fifth Street (near the present-day parsonage of the Lutheran Church).
Pumps for those operations were located in a twenty ft. deep pit inside the Waterworks building. Steam to drive the pumps was produced by large, coal fueled boilers located on the ground level floor of the building, called the “boiler rooms”. Steam from the boilers also provided the pressure to operate a whistle used to alert the community and the Volunteer Fire Department to any Emergency. Consequently, The Independent Telephone Company assigned number “one” to the telephone located at the Waterworks.
From the location of this cache spot, look slightly to the northwest and count the number of flag poles at the James Rennick Riverfront Park. Use that number for the A coordinate in the finale cache "I Didn't Know That."