You’ll find two historical locations near this cache. The first is the Creswell Chronicle. This newspaper has been locally owned and operated since 1965. The weekly paper comes out on Thursdays and is found in many local stores.
Around the corner of the building (to the west), you’ll see a mural that features the Fruit Lands gateway that welcomed Creswell visitors in the early 1900s. In 1909, the town could boast of a cannery, a prune dryer, a tile factory, a livery stable, two drug stores, two dentists, three doctors, a jewelry store, a military store, four groceries, and apple-packing plant, and a theater known as “The Opera House.”
Sadly, the gateway only lasted about 15 years before it had to be torn down, due to rot.
Information for this cache was found in “Creswell’s Centennial Pictorial Record,” which I purchased at the Creswell Historical Museum.