Bush Prairie Micro Traditional Cache
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Visit a historical spot that helped make Washington State! This area is easily accessible day or night but has a high concentration of muggles. Stealth mode required. BYOP. Trade small stuff like coins. Plz hide it better than you found it!
If there is no log or if the log is too wet to sign, you can "sign" a virtual log by posting, and encrypting, the answers to the following questions:
1. What is the cache container called?
2. What is the name of a nearby business?
George Washington Bush and his family settled on the land that includes part of today’s Olympia airport. This 640-acre piece of land was called Bush Prairie, and was known for being excellent farmland. The Bush family was known for having an excellent farm and for being generous neighbors. No one who visited the Bush family farm went away empty-handed. Many pioneers said that when times were tough, George Bush lent them food and seed, saying "Pay me back whenever you can. Just leave enough for your neighbors as well."
Isabella Bush raised a fine crop of turkeys, which she used to barter for goods at Fort Nisqually. Isabella had been trained as a nurse and helped her friends and neighbors when they were ill. She probably even brought them to her home to take care of them.
George and Isabella brought fruit trees and seeds with them from Missouri, and the Bush farm was soon producing some of the best crops in the area. William Owen Bush, George and Isabella’s son, took the fruits, vegetables, and grains grown on Bush Prairie to the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia where he won a gold medal. William Owen Bush later went on to become a member of the last Washington Territorial Legislature and Thurston County’s first Representative to the State Legislature of Washington. Descendants of George and Isabella lived in the family house on Bush Prairie for many years.
Although George Bush had claimed his land like any other pioneer, he was not allowed to officially own it, since the Donation Land Act excluded people of color. Citizens of the Territorial Legislature thought that this was unfair, and 55 of them sent a petition to Congress, asking that George Bush be given the land he had worked and lived on. They wrote about his generosity and invaluable help in establishing the new community. In 1855, Congress passed a special Act that gave George Bush his land. In 1969, the Washington State Senate passed a resolution acknowledging the important contributions George Washington Bush and his family made to the development of Washington State. In 1997, an interpretive site about the Bush family was built on Old Highway 99 in Tumwater, on land that was once part of the Bush family’s holdings.
Additional Hints
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