These are some easy caches on the road to Brown's Spring. There is parking near this cache.
This used to be a resort town in the early 1900s; the Missouri-Pacific train went through here.
Now the town is gone, even the train tracks were removed in1972.
Here's a little history:
BROWNS SPRING or BROWN’S SPRING
In the pre-Civil War days, "Uncle" Burton Brown came to Stone County and settled. The spring, by which he settled, was soon become known as Brown’s Spring.
When the Missouri-Pacific Railroad came through about 1907 or ‘08, a group of Springfield business men saw possibilities of turning Brown’s Spring into a little resort town.
A dam was built, backing up the water from the big spring into a beautiful little lake. A pavilion was built across the lake to a big spring under the hill. This is not the spring for which the town is named. Soon the little town became a favorite picnic spot.
In 1925, a flash flood struck the town, and the pavillion was washed into the lake. Two years later, during flood season, the dam broke, and now the lake is gone. The spring forms the beginning of Spring Creek, which for 100 years or more has been such an important part of Hurley.
The post-office was discontinued, when the town started losing patrons, and mail is now carried by a carrier out of Billings, Mo. on Route 1.
Present day Brown’s Spring (1951), is a little country village, with one general store, a canning factory, a union church and several homes. Children are transported by bus to Clever Schools.—STONE COUNTY NEWSPAPERS CENTENNIAL EDITION, May 1951. It is located at township 26 N. range 24 W, section 6—HIGHWAY MAP OF STONE COUNTY, as issued by the STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION MISSOURI.
-White River Valley Historical Quarterly