This geocache is part of the County of Highlands Centennial GeoTrail. Visit the link below for the official GeoTrail passport to log the codewords for all GeoTrail caches, turn in and receive a set of 5 souvenir tags. Website https://visitsebring.com/sebring-area-geotour/ for more information about the Sebring Area GeoTour and the County of Highlands Centennial GeoTrail.
Mr. Coachman was enthusiastic about the beauty of the Company’s lands in Highlands County in the area near the lakes then known as Lake Childs (currently known as Lake Placid) and Lake Stearns. In order to show off this area to others, he invited approximately 160 of the business and political leaders of Florida to accompany him on a special tour of central Florida in December, 1920.
A little earlier in 1920, Consolidated organized the Lake Childs Company to develop lands adjacent to and near Lake Childs. Consolidated Land Company sold the Lake Childs Company 538 acres, additional purchases were made from others, bringing the total acreage owned by the company to 976 acres. W. N. Brown, an engineer from Washington, D.C., was employed to draw plans for the development - which included home sites along the lakefront and a club house on the lake with 10 acre lots back from the lake, on the east side of the highway. Each 10-acre lot was to have citrus trees of different varieties – Pineapple, Temple and Valencia Oranges, Tangerines and Grapefruit and it was thought that they would be attractive, especially to retired people coming to Florida. Accordingly, Albert DeVane was employed to prepare the land and set out the citrus groves for the 10-acre lots. Groves were established on 483 acres – which is the basic portion of the Childs Grove now owned.
Information obtained from The Home Town Network