Love Letter in Orchard Cemetery Traditional Cache
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Love Letter in Orchard Cemetery
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We were out checking on caches of ours and stumbled across this little cemetery.
While we were walking around checking it out, I decided to sit down on the bench in the middle - the one with the wooden slates, and not the white or stone ones. I thought for a minute I found a geocache tucked into the slates, as I pulled out a ziplock bag. Inside the bag was a little love letter written by a secret admirer for an anonymous cemetery visitor. We decided that we would leave a cache here, and if you feel like leaving your own love letter, or answering the one left there - well, we left that there, too. The cache is not in the exact same location but in a twist on a well-known cache hiding manuever.
There is no sign on the cemetery, but I found its name on Google maps. Google has no history on this place, but does tell a story about the history of the area. This cemetery is between the towns of Orchard and Wallis, TX. Orchard has a population of 408 in the last census, and was formed in the late 1800s by settlers from Ohio who arrived via the three railroad lines (Gulf, Colorado, and Santa Fe) that crossed here. The town was named after the initial attempt at an agricultural commodity - fruit orchards.
Wallis has a population of 1, 172 people and was initially settled by a family from Kentucky , the Guylers. Mr and Mrs Guyler were very enterprising - they managed to buy the 2900 acres by selling 100 barrels of flour that presumably they brought with them on their voyage from Kentucky that involved several boats, a voyage down the Ohio and MIssissippi Rivers to New Orleans, then another boat voyage to Galveston, after which they made the sale and secured their land. They traveled by wagon train to their new land, and were prosperous farmers and also owned the only grist mill, cotton gin, and sawmill within 20 miles. Mr Guyler made several real estate deals, including to the railroads, which helped establish the town before it was finally incorporated as a city in 1973.
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