#017 WVRd Series Traditional Cache
WVRdSeries: Archiving this cache that keeps disappearing and replacing it in a better hiding place.
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The Williamson Valley Road Series is a Friends of Morgan Ranch Nature Park history project. Even numbered caches are on the E side of the Rd & odd on the W for 44 mi. WE RECOMMEND THAT YOU WORK 1 SIDE OF THE ROAD AT A TIME. Please pick up trash so the neighborhood trash-pickers are not drawn to the location.
AMERICAN RANCH
In 1876, Jefferson Lee (1836–1915) traded his six-gun for a piece of land. Lee and his wife, Agnes, then built the American Ranch Inn store and stage station at the intersection of the Hardyville and Ehrenburg toll roads. The ranch had a lake, with ducks, surrounded by lush clover pastures and fields of mulberry trees, chokecherries, plum thickets, and wild grapevine. They raised Hungarian grass, apples, pears, hogs, cows, poultry, and sheep. Business declined in 1877, when freighters built an Iron Springs route to Prescott. In 1902, Bert and Carl Lee bought their parents’ homestead. Historian Sharlot Hall and the Lee family hosted a motorcade tour of the inn in 1936. J.C. Josef purchased the ranch in the 1940s. Eventually, John Favour and Keith Quail, of the law firm Favor and Quail, purchased the ranch, which led to M3 Companies’ American Ranch Development in the 2000s.
Arcadia Publication's, Williamson Valley Road
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
[Please do not replace the container or log if you think it may be missing. Log a DNF for a hint.]