Livingston County Cache Tour: Odell Traditional Cache
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Livingston County Cache Tour: Odell
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This is 1 of 15 caches that will take you on a tour of Livingston County. Each one is in a different town of the county. The 15 caches are separate traditional caches of varying sizes and difficulties.
More about Livingston County Livingston was established on February 27, 1837. It was formed from parts of McLean, LaSalle, and Iroquois counties, and named after Edward Livingston, a prominent politician who was mayor of New York City and represented New York in the United States House of Representatives and Louisiana in both houses of Congress. He later served as Andrew Jackson’s Secretary of State and as Minister to France. Although he had no connections to Illinois, the General Assembly found him accomplished enough to name a county after him. Fascinating Fact: One of the notable residents of Livingston County is none other than Michael Myers, the serial killer from the Halloween movie series! The fictional town in the series was Haddonfield, IL and it was supposedly located 3.5 miles northeast of Pontiac and 15 miles southwest of Dwight. Does that mean Cayuga is Haddonfield?
Odell, IL
Early Odell was a railroad town and a grain collection point. It was surrounded by some of the richest agricultural land in the United States. By the late 1870s over a million and a half bushels of grain were being shipped from Odell. In 1877 a newspaper, the Odell Herald was established. In May 0f 1886 several buildings in Odell were destroyed by a powerful Tornado. By the year 1900 there were 1,000 people in the town and since that date its population has remained at about that number. The major change came not in population, but in transportation as Odell made the transition from a railroad to a highway town.
In 1921 the state put under contract a highway paving project for what at first was known as the Chicago-Springfield East St. Louis Road. Paving was finished through Odell in 1922. The designation of the road was soon changed to Route 4. In 1926, what was substantially the same road, became Route 66. At first all of these roads passed through the center of Odell and by 1933 the local citizens became so frustrated by the inability of people to cross the road that they constructed a pedestrian underpass beneath the highway. In 1946 the problem was eased when a bypass was built around the town.
In 1932 Patrick O’Donnell built the Standard Oil and Gasoline Station to serve traffic along the highway; this building has now been carefully restored and has become a popular stop for visitors touring Route 66. The station was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. In 1964 the first stage of Interstate 55 was completed past Odell. It was improved in the 1970s. This highway substantially paralleled both the earlier roads and the original route of the Chicago and Mississippi Railroad.
The cache is a large camo’d flip-top plastic container that has a little swag and log book. This area has been known to be very muggle prone and three of my caches have disappeared nearby, so please make sure the cache is hidden from plain site.
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