MLT - Barker Creek Traditional Cache

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Goldfinch: This cache has been a problem for me all the time, it is wet more than it is dry. It is also now farther than I care to maintain caches now that I seem to be getting old. Mabe someone else will be interested in placing a cache here.

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Hidden : 9/21/2014
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

Town Name: Barker Creek
Population: Unknown

Reason for Becoming a Lost Town:
The decline of the logging industry led to the decline of Barker Creek in the early 1900s.

Location:
The ghost town of Barker Creek lies seven miles northwest of Kalkaska on M-72.

Early Settlers:
There seems to be a couple different variations of you arrived here first. One account states that it was William George Copeland, came to settle in the fall of 1855. It was to this heavily timbered area and its great potential that attacked him to the area. When more people began moving into the area, William Copeland donated land for a school and Methodist church. In another account it was in June 1866, William H. Bockes, a native of Medina County, Ohio and a Civil War veteran purchased land in the township near Barker Creek. After returning to Ohio to marry his wife in October, they both returned immediately to take up residence. Another early resident in the Barker Creek area was John H.F. Letherby, born in England and moved to Canada at the age of 16. He settled in section 32 near Barker Creek in October 1866. The settlement continued to grow with the arrival of the Chicago and West Michigan Railroad (now the Pere Marquette Railroad). and the building of a depot. By the late 1800s Barker Creek had its own baseball team, band, tuition supported singing school, post office, shoemaker, and livery. People from surrounding farms came to Barker Creek to replenish supplies, collect their mail, and to attend church and social functions. All that remains today of the once thriving community are a few scattered homes, a Greenhouse and two signs that stand as a memorial to the early settlers of the Barker Creek area whose lives influenced the growth of Kalkaska County.
"The Cache"

You are looking for a regular size container hidden in a traditional matter.


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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Zhygv-gehax cvar

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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