#020 WVRd Series Traditional Cache
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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.
GRANITE MOUNTAIN
When the Spanish first visited the Central Arizona area in the 1500s and 1600s, they recorded Yavapai Indians inhabiting areas south of Williamson Valley, while the Hualapai (Walapai or Pai) roamed the Juniper Mountain area. Buffer zones of uninhabited land separated the peoples. The Granite Mountain Yavapai band, called Wiih govdteh bahyah or “people of Granite Mountain area,” hunted around Prescott, the grasslands of Chino Valley, the southern Williamson Valley, the Sierra Prieta, and the northern Bradshaw Mountains. Ya va ki shi. According to tribe elder Ted Vaughn, the Yavapai-Prescott Indians called it wiih guhv dehm, meaning “rock that is big.” Granite Mountain was originally called Mount Gurley for John Addison Gurley, the first appointed governor of the Arizona Territory, who died before taking office.
Arcadia Publication's Williamson Valley Road
Additional Hints
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[Please do not replace the container or log if you think it may be missing. Log a DNF for a hint.]