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Our Telfair City Traditional Cache

This cache has been archived.

Vertighost: As this cache has been unavailable or unserviceable for a period in excess of 30 days, I'm archiving it to keep it from continually showing up in search lists and to prevent it from blocking other cache placements. Please note that caches that have been archived due to lack of owner maintenance and/or owner communication are not eligible to be unarchived.

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Hidden : 8/17/2015
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:


Welcome to Telfair!

This cache is a very small lock-and-lock container. Tough to find a hiding spot in this very well-kempt little park, especially when you're not hiding a micro as usual, but it's been achieved.


While enveloping you in suburban sunshine, this spot will give you a close-up side view of the red building formerly known as Camp Two, the former Imperial State Prison Farm state prison mens' dormitory, today known as the Houston Museum of Natural Science at Sugar Land. For over 80 years, the Imperial State Prison Farm provided convict labor for the surrounding companies, including and especially its namesake, Imperial Sugar.

This spot, in 1953.
This spot, 1953.

Today, it's impossible to tell that all this land served a very different purpose 13 years ago, but websites such as HistoricAerials provide an incredibly interesting view by giving us a Google Maps-like aerial satellite view of places taken 50, 60, and sometimes 80+ years ago. Try geocaching with that map! On this very street, there used to be a prison water well 100 feet to the east (today under some poor family's backyard pool), and an unfortunately-named "Browns Bayou" that ran through this street until it was dried up in preparation for real estate development.


Congrats to Imperial Geo Squad for being the FTF! A very appropriate name for this cache.

Leave everything as you found it! I recommend you find the nearby cache Midnight Special (GC5Z9EB) next for a much more upclose and personal look at our fair city's history.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Ubcr lbh qvqa'g haqrepunetr lbhe cubar/TCF orsber gelvat gb svaq guvf.

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)