P&P's City Series #6 Traditional Cache
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We hid a cache in 25 cities in 2 days. Cities include: Vacaville, American Canyon, Oakville, Yountville, Napa, Winters, Esparto, Woodland, Dunnigan, Arbuckle, Colusa, Maxwell, Princeton, Butte City, Glenn, Willows, Artois, Orland, Corning, Tehama, Los Molinos, Dairyville, Red Bluff & Cottonwood & Anderson.
Winters, CA
The town was given the name of Winters after Mr. Winters donated 40 acres of land to the Vacaville and Clear Lake Railroad to start a town. D.P. Edwards also gave the town 40 acres. At the time, in 1875, the railroad was having financial trouble in extending the railroad north to Putah Creek, and Winters, along with others, gave money to the railroad to help pay the cost of putting the bridge across Putah Creek. Winters was born in Illinois on Sept. 14, 1823, where his father, John Devers Winters, had developed a stage line and freight business in Illinois. In 1848, Theodore’s father and brothers, John D. Jr. and Joseph and daughter Harriet, headed for California via the Oregon Trail and left Theodore to dispose of the family business. Theodore, who had married in 1847 to Sarah Marshall, stayed on in Illinois until the spring of 1849. He then brought his wife and small son, George, to California where they joined the rest of the family at Forest City, situated on the American River. There, the Winters family did some mining, some farming, but mostly hauling freight to the gold fields. When gold strikes occurred in Nevada, the Winters father and sons began hauling freight from Placerville into the Carson Valley.
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