Jennie Welch Cache Traditional Cache
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As a child, I really enjoyed visiting Jennie Welch in her antique shop just across the entrance to the golf course.
Samuel Welch, an emigrant from Virginia, and his son William homesteaded in the valley in 1882 after Samuel’s wife died. They gradually added on to their holdings until they owned almost 1000 acres. Samuel died in 1898. Tourists used to come to the valley in the summer to camp. In 1909 Clinton Kern and a Mr. Wren leased the property and opened a hotel resort, which they operated until 1909. Billy retained use of the ranch. Billy’s first wife Mamie Kopper Welch died in 1902. In 1911 he married Jennie Faubion and together they ran the resort until 1917, at which time they closed the hotel, remodeled part of it for a home and built nine cottages, which were rented to tourists and summer visitors.
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