GC743NB HBS7 - The Duke of Windsor: Windsor Park (Traditional Cache) in Georgia, United States created by RadiantBuddhaCachers

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Hidden : 4/16/2017

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Congrats to PeterC3611 for another FTF!!!

Windsor Park

This is the 7th cache in the Historical Brunswick Series. This is a large and beautiful park of oaks, which years ago was part of a golf course.

Listed under the National Register of Historic Places Program

The Windsor Park Historic District is significant at the local level under Criteria A and C in the areas of architecture and community planning and development for Its importance to the city of Brunswick as its first suburb. In 1888 the newly formed Brunswick Railway and Terminal Securities Company, a business conglomerate of New York and Western capitalists known locally as "The Brunswick Company", purchased a large tract of land overlooking a vast marsh southeast of downtown Brunswick. The land was to be developed Into an exclusive "picturesque" subdivision for wealthy Northerners to spend the cold winter months. The Brunswick Company put their plans for the subdivision on hold following an 1892 recession. Subsequent recessions followed during the early 20th century. During this time, the tract was generally regarded as park space with the land being used as the location for a nine- hole golf course. A severe housing shortage during the mld~1920s prompted the Brunswick Company to revive the Windsor Park project In 1926. Using the original subdivision plan, the tract was formally surveyed and platted beginning in 1926 and laid out in 1929. Initial development was stow through the early 1930s, but the completion of the adjacent Howard E. Coffin Memorial Park In 1938 resulted in the gradual build out of the neighborhood following the end of the Great Depression and the Second World War. The Windsor Park Historic District Is significant In the area of architecture for its good, intact collection of house types and styles found in middle-class neighborhoods in Georgia from the 1920s through the 1960s. In the area of community planning and development. Windsor Park is significant because It represents an early planned picturesque subdivision In Brunswick. It retains the historic layout of streets and lots, which was a departure from the gridiron pattern that had dominated Brunswick's previous development.

https://www.nps.gov/nr/feature/places/13000877.htm

On a personal note: I grew up in this Windsor Park and my parents still live in the same house. Back in the early 90’s I was walking through this park after the city had dug some trenches through the park laying some sort of cable lines. I saw where they had dug some of the trenches and there were all of these pieces of broken dishes. I gathered them up because they looked really old and I thought it was cool, so I brought them home. My mom took the pieces to the library one night where local archeologist, Dr. Fred Cook was to be giving a talk. She showed him the pieces and he asked where they had been found and she told him. The following weekend I saw him in the park with a couple of other people and they were doing an archeological dig. I went over and joined the group. I worked my way into be the chief person manning the shovel, lol. We dug these square pits that were maybe 5’x5’x5’. We found in mud in the bottom of them. Dr. Cook had determined that the area of the park we were in, had all been marsh at one time and a creek flowed into the area. He said that the area obviously had later been filled in with dirt. In these pits we found broken dishes, old pipe stems, old porcelain baby doll heads, wooden dentures and even the wooden bottoms of old shoes. The mud had actually preserved the wooden bottoms of these shoes. We also found all kinds of bottles of various sizes and shapes. I found a perfectly intact elaborate shaped bottle. It said Star Bitters on it and the date was from some point in the 1800’s, I can’t remember the exact date now. Dr. Cook looked up the bottles values and said it was valued at around $1400. Unfortunately, since it was on city property and he had been issued a permit to do the digs, everything we found belonged to the City of Brunswick. Dr. Cook determined this area to be a community dumping ground on the edge of the marsh from the late 1700’s to the mid 1800’s. His conclusion was that this was Brunswick’s first organized trash dump. Looking back it was a lot of fun. I was pretty proud of my discovery, even if it was a trash dump...

Look out for muggles.

Cache is a black plastic vial. BYOP and paper clip or tweezers to retrieve log. Please place back as you found it.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

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