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Hidden : 7/12/2014
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

This a large flat micro cache hidden in an obvious place. Not on the guardrail.

Another cache that will help you with a "Welcome to ... " Challenge cache.

Ophir (also, Spanish Corral and Ophirville) is an unincorporated community in Placer County, California.

Ophir, now a suburb of Auburn, it was a boomtown of the California Gold Rush, later a ghost town. In 1852 it was the center of the local gold mining industry, and the most populous town in the county. After the gold rush, the area was planted in vineyards and orchards, and during Prohibition just in orchards. Beginning in the 1970s vineyards again returned to the area. Today, local services for Ophir come from Auburn.

The Ophirville post office was open by 1852 and closed in 1866. The Ophir post office opened in 1872 and closed in 1910. The name comes from Biblical Ophir, the source of King Solomon's treasures.

Originally named The Spanish Corral in 1849, Ophir received its Biblical name in 1850 because of the rich, gold placer mining in the area, and grew to over 500 families by 1853, when a disastrous fire on the 12th of July destroyed the whole town. The town was quickly rebuilt. Later Ophir became the center of quartz mining in the county

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