GC4CPZV Idaho's 150th – Chinese Gardens (Traditional Cache) in Idaho, United States created by QuireNerd

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Hidden : 6/1/2013

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Geocache Description:

Idaho Territory's Sesquicentennial

Idaho Territory was organized by Congress on March 4, 1863, and signed into law by President Lincoln. This cache series is meant to commemorate the 150th year since Idaho’s inception.

Chinese Gardens

Louie Do Gee delivers fresh produce from his
gardens along the river in what is now
Garden City

The Chinese, who came to Idaho in the gold-rush days, had not been miners at home. They were peasant farmers from small villages in the fertile deltas of Guangdong Province in south China. When mining or other employment ran out in their new country, they turned to what they knew best, and at which they were highly skilled.

In April 1871, the Idaho Tri-weekly Statesman observed: “The China population are planting gardens here pretty extensively. They are so patient and puttering that they do well.”

Louie Do Gee leased land along the Boise River in what is now Garden City. His sons, William and Tong, came to Idaho from China in the early 1920s and successfully operated the Louie Gee Gardens until 1946, when the incorporation of Garden City forced them to give up the land they had leased from the Davis family, descendants of Tom and Julia Davis.

A 1920 history of Idaho describes the Davis property: “The Thomas J. Davis Estate embraces large realty interest, including about 700 acres of fine lands in the Boise Valley along the river just west of the city – lands that are most fertile and productive and which include the beautiful and famous Chinese gardens, visible to and admired by all travelers on the Nampa Interurban Railway line, which follows the crest of the hill above the gardens. These Chinese gardens are all on the Thomas J. Davis estate and constitute one of the most beautiful sights in the valley of Boise through the summer seasons.”

Garden City’s main street, Chinden Blvd, is a portmanteau of the words "China" and "garden."

References

-- Arthur Hart, http://diggin4treasure.org/idaho-history/idaho-history-remembering-idahos-chinese-gardens/

Cache Information:

Enjoy the greenbelt – we’re so lucky to have it!

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

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(letter above equals below, and vice versa)

Idaho's 150th – Chinese Gardens Traditional Cache