Young's Point: Beet Harvester Traditional Cache

In the 1930's children whose parents were Russian-German still had to go out into the beet fields for two to three weeks in the fall.  They had to crawl along the ground with patches on their pants and chop the tops of the beets off then line them up until the rows could be put together.  Miss Kober showed us a beet knife.  Sayler S.

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