R.I.P. Traditional Geocache
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R.I.P.
Located in historic Virginia City, MT, this cache site is disabled-person friendly for wheelchairs, crutches, walkers, and canes.
Cache Container and Site
This cache is located near Virginia City's historic cemetery. Many famous pioneers are interned here including William Fairweather, discoverer of Alder Gulch, and William Ennis, first homesteader of Ennis, MT .
The cache container is a rectangular dry box. It is clearly marked as a GeoCache game piece and contains: A log, a pencil, and several trade items.
Initial trade items include some “gold coins” to honor Virginia City’s place in Montana's gold rush history, and a trackable coin bound for Canada!
Virginia City History
Virginia City, MT celebrates its 150th Anniversary in 2013!
A booming gold town by 1864, Virginia City was home to some 10,000 prospectors, merchants, and homesteaders. According to www.VirginiaCity.com, Virginia City: was one of Overland Mail & Express Company’s main stations; featured camels for freight and packing; boasted electricity in 1892; opened Montana’s first public school in 1866; was home to the first company of Montana National Guard in 1885; had the territory’s first newspaper; was the first outfitting point for trips to Yellowstone; served as the first administrative site for Yellowstone National Park; was the capitol of Montana in 1865; and treated residents and guests with Montana’s first theater company in 1864.
Today, Virginia City is a living history town with outdoor museums, stagecoach tours, horseback rides, train rides, theater productions, shops, restaurants, icecream, hand-thrown pizza, candy, a salloon, and the largest collection of old-west artifacts outside of the Smithsonian. Check out more at: http://www.virginiacity.com
If you encounter any problems with the cache, please notify us at Judbergers@gmail.com !
We hope you have a great experience!
Ivan, Ann, Hannah, and Isaiah
Additional Hints
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Gur Pnpur unf orra uvqqra orarngu n tebhc bs ebpxf fgengrtvpnyyl cynprq gb sbez n “uvqqra pbzcnegzrag” sbe gur pnpur.
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