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kc9gbo: Tree has been pretty much destroyed as a hiding location. This one was the death knell for the final due to it being a headache cache since it's inception. It was the nail in the casket. Never fear though as the ammo can has a new purpose already and some girls have orders to paint it pink.... Now time to find a spot for a girls cache.

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A cache by kc9gbo Message this owner

Hidden : 7/25/2012

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Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

Take a tour of Hokah and find the numbers needed to get the final location. All these locations will be near signs that will tell more of the history of the city.

You will be going on a short tour of Hokah and explore some of the history of the city. Make sure you look for the number needed for the final cache.

The number inside this cache corresponds to A on the final.

^{Welcome to North Hokah, nowadays this area doesn't seem like much but at one time the present area was a rail yard for the Southern Minnesota Railroad along with grain mills and various other businesses. After many floods along here those structures have started to fade away to be replaced. In the future this area will contain an extension of the Root River bike trail as it heads towards La Crescent through the wetlands to the northeast.}

Southern Minnesota Railroad:

The Root River Valley and Southern Minnesota Railroad Company was originally chartered March 2, 1855, with a capital stock of $5,000,000. By the original act, it was to be constructed from the village of Hokah westward by the most feasible route to some point between the southern line of the Territory, and a point between township line 110 and 111, crossing the Minnesota River: Thence westward to the most feasible route to the Great Bend of the Missouri River. With privileges of branches from Hokali, via Target Lake to Eagle Bluff; alo another from Hokah to Brownsville and a third from some point on the main line east of range twelve west of Mower, Freeborn, and Faribault to the west line of the Territory. Under the new act the starting point was made La Crescent instead of Hokah, thence by Target Lake up the valley of the Root River to Rochester to a point of junction with the Transit Railroad. It was also authorized to construct a railroad from St. Paul and. St. Anthony, via Minneapolis to Shakopee, thence via Belle Plain, Le Sueur, Traverse des Sioux, St. Peter, Kasota, Mankato, and South Bend, to the southern boundary of the Territory in the direction of the Big Sioux River; also build its Brownsville branch from Hokah. By an act of the Legislature in 1857, the name of this road was changed to the Southern Minnesota Railroad Company.