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Yeehaw, Florida Traditional Cache

Hidden : 8/12/2012
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

Little unknown facts about 50 US towns/cities that we all probably have never heard of. This will be a 50 cache series spread all over Thurston County. They will all be placed within this summer so be patient.

Yeehaw Junction is a census-designated place (CDP) in Osceola County, Florida, United States.  As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 240. 

The junction's name "Yeehaw" comes from the Seminole tribe in origin and means "wolf", referring to wolves that inhabited the area. According to town historians and several original newspaper articles that are displayed at the Desert Inn and Restaurant National Historical site, the town was originally named "Jackass Junction". This name was given to the four-corner site back in the early 1930s, when local ranchers rode on burros to visit the Desert Inn (then the local brothel). As the 1950s approached, the Florida legislature felt that a name change was due in light of the construction of Florida's Turnpike through the center of the community in 1957, resulting in renaming the town to its present-day name.

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