Young's Point: The Man Who Broke His Head Traditional Cache

If out in the rain for a quick cache, better put this one away for a sunny day, or you may get sucked into the gumbo! "My cache is called this because of a very serious train crash at Young’s Point.  Ora Babcock was the brakeman of the train He and the other workers were ordered to jump out of the train to save themselves.  But when Babcock jumped, he hit his head on a rail.  Babcock is buried in the Park City Cemetery."  Ethan M.

One of the objectives of our geocaching unit in fifth grade is to acquaint students with local history they may not have had an opportunity to hear or read about.  Taken from James O. Southworth’s The Road Taken, the students learned of the most disastrous train wreck in Montana history,  the 1908 wreck at Young’s Point, 4 1/2 miles west of Park City,  The students selected the name of their cache and wrote an on-line introduction for it (see above), keeping in mind that  they needed to take seriously their role in promoting local history.