For my birthday, Renay bought me a book called “Albuquerque, a guide to the weird, wonderful and obscure”. What better tool for a geocacher!!!
This book is full of strange and super cool interesting places and history about Albuquerque. Many places already have caches nearby but I’ve learned a ton of things about our city and have set up a dozen caches to teach and entertain.
I can’t thank the author enough, Ashley Biggers, for all the great research and information about this treasure we call Albuquerque!
Have fun!!!!
This cache will take you near the Telephone Museum of New Mexico. Another location I had no idea existed. Inside is a history of phones and telephone memorabilia used throughout the ages in New Mexico. A bullet riddled switchboard used by operator Susan Parks to call for help on March 9th, 1916. The emergency? 485 Mexican revolutionaries led by General Francisco "Pancho Villa" had just over run her town of Columbus, New Mexico.
The museum is housed in a 1906 bulding that was the original home of the Colorado Phone company in New Mexico. Why wasn't it called the New Mexico Phone Company? The state was still a territory at the time and did not become a state until 1912.
The museum is a short stroll down 4th...it will be on the left.
***be careful and be sure to replace exactly as found so it isn't accidentally discovered***