If you are a history junky like us you will find more than interest in this cache. We admire beautiful structures such as this and believe everyone should! After finding this cache and reading up on the awesome history lesson you will receive if you don't already know about it...why not pass up this bunker and head around the corner over the railroad tracks! Right on the other side of the tracks you will find two beautiful open bunkers that may interest you! Please ignore the damage and graffiti that local kids have made to these bunkers! It's appalling but if you look past the outside and look at the beauty inside you will see how admirable these bunkers really are! If you feel up for it and have a four wheel drives vehicle you can also continue on down past the open bunkers and up the hill... Once you get to the top and look to your right you will see where the majority of the bunkers are almost completely submerged under water! It truly is an amazing site to see! Please be aware as you are looking at these bunkers that the ones that aren't located where the cache is may or may not be on private property. And make sure if you decide to go to see he submerged bunkers over the hills that you go on a day that it hasn't rained in quite some time! And I would recommend going during the day! It's worth the risk but just because you have a 4 wheel drive vehicle doesn't mean you'll make it up even if it has rained so please be careful and smart! PLEASE ENJOY YOURSELVES AND BYOP!!
OH AND BTW!!! Watch out for the unexploded bombs and chemical weapons that are rumored to be barried in the area!!!!!!
Congrats to Nomad721 on FTF!!!
SAN JACINTO ORDNANCE DEPOT. San Jacinto Ordnance Depot was a World War II facility located on a 4,954-acre reservation on the Houston Ship Channel fifteen miles south of Houston. Its functions were to receive, store, and inspect all classes of ammunition (other than smoke) destined for shipment through its docks or through the New Orleans port and to receive, inspect, recondition, and store ammunition received from posts, camps, stations, and overseas theaters of operations. Captains of the ports of Houston and Galveston objected to the location of an ammunition depot so close to manufacturing plants, shipyards, and an oil refinery, but the United States Coast Guard approved the project. The first commanding officer arrived at the installation on November 21, 1941; on June 1, 1942, the depot received its first shipment of four cars of propellant charges. The first commercial vessel was loaded at San Jacinto on September 7, 1944. The depot supplied both the army and the navy; by December 31, 1945, it had received over 329,000,000 pounds of ammunition and had shipped over 208,000,000 pounds. The San Jacinto Ordnance Depot continued to ship army and navy supplies between 1945 and 1950, but plans had been made for phasing out activities as soon as the decreasing need for war materials would allow. With the involvement of the United States in the Korean War, the need for the depot and its services again arose, and phasing out was postponed. In 1959 the depot was declared surplus, and the United States Army Corps of Engineers took custody. In October 1964 all facilities of the San Jacinto Ordnance Depot were sold to the Houston Channel Industrial Corporation for somewhat more than ten million dollars.