Before their were parking lots, houses and the streets there was an amusement park called Acushnet Park covering more than 20 acres of land. Dan's Pavilion across the street was owned by Dan Bauer. It first opened sometime around 1916, and was famous for its fish n chips.
The park had different amusement park style booths and roller coasters as well as other rides for kids.
There was a skating rink in the park near the turn of East Rodney across from the Fort Taber entrance. In later years as the last part of the park to stay active as Lincoln Park started to take business away from Acushnet Park.
The entrance to Dan's Pavilion was near where the entrance to Fort Taber is today on the east side of East Rodney French Blvd on the beach. The pavilion had a bar, restaurant and hosted dancing with an orchestra. Many famous people were on the bill of entertainers, such as Red Skelton etc, as well as magicians and singers
The 1938 hurricane did a lot of damage to the structures, but they were soon repaired. A fire caused some damage 1941 and later 1954 hurricane finally destroyed both places.
The cache is a micro located in one of the parking lots. There is no pen or pencil so it is important that you BYO. There is no reason to park in any of the parking lots you can park on the side streets to locate the cache.
Foot note: Taken from www.Whalingcity.net