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Autwine, Oklahoma Traditional Cache

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Chuck Walla: Hello R Scott,

Geocaching HQ flagged this cache as one that may need attention and sent you an email about it. Some time after that, I disabled your cache and requested that you check on your cache and perform any necessary maintenance. Since you have not responded to my reviewer log about your cache by posting a note to your cache page to tell me and others of your intention to address the issue with it, the cache has been archived at the direction of Geocaching HQ.

Sincerely,

Chuck Walla
Community Volunteer Reviewer
Geocaching.com

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Hidden : 1/27/2016
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

Autwine, OK

A matchstick container.


I've always wondered where this place was from the first time I seen it on the map. Even the 2015-2016 Oklahoma free map still has it on there but now has (no trace) under it. There is really no trace of the town just an old railroad bed. I've live in the area my whole life and we even live about 3 miles from here when I was kid and never knew there was a town here at one time.

A little bit of history about the town I found on the internet.

Autwine was called a few different names in its time and from the story was not even meant to be named Autwine.

Autwine was first called Virginia City and was platted on June 17, 1899. Its post office was named Pierceton and the railroad called the station Arta. A meeting was held to determine a single name for the town and agreed upon Antwine. Named after Antwine Roy, a Ponca Indian chief. There are two different stories of how the name was Autwine instead of Antwine. In one version the Santa Fe railroad agent misspelled the name and refused to change it. In the other the town clerk's poor penmanship on a record caused the name to come back from Washington as Autwine instead of Antwine.

It had a post office as Pierceton from May 26, 1894 and as Autwine from March 5, 1903, until June 30, 1922

The town was an agricultural center a regular shipping point for cattle, hogs and wheat. At the turn of the century the town had two elevators, a stockyard, and implement yard, a bank, ten other business establishments and a doctor. 25 homes in town and more in the surrounding area and a school servicing grades 1-8, with high school in Blackwell, six miles away. But as roads in the area improved to other town in the area Autwine declined as a trading center. The bank closed in 1904. Fire destroyed the business district in 1905, burning the grocery, dry-goods store, depot, blacksmith shop, general merchandise store, hardware store and part of the lumberyard. Only one empty business was left standing. Most of the businesses did not rebuild. By 1910 there was only one general store, a blacksmith shop, and one elevator in business. In 1912, the school was destroyed by a tornado. In 1930, The last store closed and the elevator closed shortly thereafter.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Oruvaq gur qvfp ba gerr.

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)