BFTHGT: Fellowship Crossing & Standard Glass Traditional Cache
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BFTHGT: Fellowship Crossing & Standard Glass
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Ammo Can at the trailhead
This is one of 20 historical caches along the Butler Freeport Community Trail, formerly the Butler Branch of the Western Pennsylvania Railroad. So grab your passport, provided in the cache box, and enter the keyword. Then attend an event or send to the address on the passport to purchase a trackable, custom geocoin. Any questions, please e-mail president@butlerfreeporttrail.org
THIS SERIES OF CACHES ARE ONLY ACCESSIBLE VIA THE BUTLER FREEPORT TRAIL. There is plenty of parking at each trailhead. DO NOT DRIVE ON THE TRAIL; you may hike or bike to each cache. Passports are now downloadable on www.butlerfreeporttrail.org
FELLOWSHIP CROSSING
The Butler Freeport Community Trail has been so many years in the making. With the completion of Fellowship Crossing in 2015, the trail finally reaches the whole way from Freeport into Butler.
STANDARD GLASS
Father Marinaro Park wasn’t always a park; in its former life, it was the site of Standard Plate Glass Company, founded in 1887. It was Butler’s first industry that could compete on a national level. Butler, having an abundant supply of natural gas, made plate-glass-making a profitable industry. In 1932, Franklin Glass purchased the company, operating for 25 years before it closed for good. The recipe for glass is silica (sand, which was mined in another location along the trail, south of Cabot), soda (potash), arsenic (used to take the bubbles out), and lime. Heated until molten glass is formed, a gob was then added to the end of a blowpipe and blown by craftsmen into a final product: vases, bowls, plates, bottles, and even window glass and mirrors.
For more information read The Standard Plate Glass Company by Ray D. Hoffman
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