GC3V2EY SGA - Old Trolley Stop (Multi-cache) in Pennsylvania, United States created by SGAGeoTrail

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Spring Grove GeoTour: Making Room for the 2013

GC3V2EY ▼

A cache by SGAGeoTrail Message this owner

Hidden : 8/19/2012

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Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

This multi should be a challenge even for experienced cachers.

You’re looking for a small well hidden bison tube. Please hide the cache the same or better then you found it.

Contains a FTF Prize! BYOP!

You may need a tool to pull out the sheet with the coordinates for the final stage.

The geocache hidden at the posted coordinates is a regular geocache, however, it is also part of the 2012 Spring Grove Area GeoTrail (SGAGT), a project designed to promote the many businesses and other places of interest in the Spring Grove Area. The SGAGT utilizes the growing interest in geocaching to assist both residents and visitors to the area in learning more about the unique attractions. This cache contains a unique code which you write down in your SGAGT Passport to verify that you found it. When you have found a minimum of eighteen SGAGT caches, you will be eligible to have your SGAGT passport validated and receive a commemorative SGAGT geocoin. You must have your official SGAGT passport with you when you find this cache in order to write the code in it. Click on the link below to visit the SGAGT website at (visit link) for complete details.

When you find the cache and write down the code in your passport, be sure to leave the code where you found it. If you fail to do this, you are ruining the possibilities for future cachers to complete the trail.

This cache has been placed with permission by the owner of the property. As with all SGA GeoTrail caches please do not attempt to locate the cache after dusk and as always be respectful.

Please notify us immediately through geocaching.com if you have any problems!

In the early 1900s, the trolley lines of the York Railway Company served the needs of many county residents for both business and leisure travel. Weekday routes served daily commuters, while weekends featured special cars to picnic groves, churches and shops.
Construction of the York and Hanover trolley line began on May 1, 1907.

The “Hanover Fast Line” opened on February 29, 1908 and provided an efficient transportation link from York’s little-known, outlying communities such as Sunnyside, Bairs, Menges Mills, and Jacobs Mill to the growing towns of Spring Grove and Hanover.

The popularity of the automobile doomed trolley transport, and service to Hanover ended in 1938.

Trail Feasibility Study

A 2003 study, conducted for the York County Rail Trail Authority, concluded that 85% of the original 16.5-mile trolley corridor remained under the ownership of Metropolitan Edison Company and was suitable for trail development.

The study also recommended that development begin with two sections: (1) 4.5 miles linking Menges Mills to Bair Station and located in Jackson Township and Spring Grove Borough (2) 1.5 miles from Hanover Borough to the Penn Township/Heidelberg Township Line.

Construction

Construction began in June 2008 on two sections of the Trolley Trail: approx. 1 mile in Hanover Borough and approx. 3/4 mile in Spring Grove Borough and Jackson Twp.

These sections opened to the public in fall 2008. The new section in Jackson Township opened in August of 2012.

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