Cache Loving Tree Traditional Cache

Just a little walk on the paved walking trail. Found a tree that needed a cache. Enjoy.

Here's a little History of the Park:

Green Estate Park was dedicated and the historic Churchill Gates reopened in May of 2006.

The park features a 1.5 mile walking/biking trail.

In the 1930s, Allen P. Green set aside approximately 200 acres of his land holdings as a place for his family to build homes. Three of his children, Elizabeth Green Bond, Martha Green Staley and Robert S. Green, built homes and raised their families on the property. In 1941, Mr. and Mrs. Green completed construction of their own Georgian style home on the property’s most prominent hilltop. 

Following the deaths of Mr. and Mrs. Green in 1956 and 1957, their home was used as a guest house for AP Green Refractories until the closing of the Mexico plant in 2002. The 4 original houses are still private residences, 1 of which, the Bond home, remains in the family as the residence of Senator Christopher S. Bond. 

In 1946, England’s former Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, delivered his historic "Iron Curtain" speech at Westminster College in Fulton. In anticipation of a visit to his home by the Prime Minister and President Harry S. Truman, Mr. Green built a formal entrance on the west side of the Estate, featuring wrought iron gates and brick masonry walls. Logistical problems prevented the visit from taking place, but the gate thereafter became known as the "Churchill Gate." 

In late 2005, 143 acres of the original Green Estate was given to the City of Mexico by Renny and Tina Smith, who purchased the property in 2002 from AP Green Refractories and its parent, Harbison-Walker. Mr. Smith is a great grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Allen P. Green. 

AP Green Refractories was well known as a maker of fire brick. THE A. P. GREEN FIRE BRICK COMPANY PLANT, east end of E. Breckenridge St., is one of the largest units of its type in the world. The plant is an extensive group of steel and corrugated-iron buildings, kilns, and sheds. In front of the group, approached by a landscaped drive, is a white-brick office building of Classic design. In the rear are the clay pits and a small lake. The clay, of excellent quality, is scooped from the open pits by steam shovels and hauled to the crusher house in small railway cars.  Practically every operation, from the digging of the clay to the measuring of "grain size," aging, and testing of finished products, is in charge of engineers. The company maintains a modern laboratory equipped with a self-contained model brick plant. Three types of refractories are made: dry press, stiff mud, and handmade, the last molded in thousands of intricate forms. The molders are men of long experience and have an artisan's pride in their work. Each product is stamped with the name of the molder as well as that of the company. This custom dates back to the days of the guilds ; it gives the molders a feeling of responsibility and a pride in workmanship that people who operate machines cannot experience. The A. P. Green Brick Company, founded by A. P. Green in 1910, and employing approximately 500 persons, has what amounts to a world monopoly on many types of fire-clay products.

Permission to place cache granted by Parks and Recreation Director Chad Shoemaker.

Park Hours: 7:30 a.m. to 11:00 p.m.