Schlicht Springs Traditional Cache

This cache has been archived.

Reviewer of the Cache: [b][red]ARCHIVING[/b][/red]

I have been looking at caches in the area that have been temporarily disabled for a while now and it looks like your cache has been under the weather for some time. While I feel that Geocaching.com should hold the location for you and block other cachers from entering the area around this cache for a reasonable amount of time I don?t think we can do so any longer. Therefore, I have archived this cache. If you haven?t done so already, please pick up any remaining cache bits as soon as possible.

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Hidden : 9/9/2004
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
3 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

From Crocker Missouri take Hwy 133 toward Swedborg to Schlicht Springs sign turn on Resort Rd go about 2 miles turn on Riverside Rd go about .2 mile to entrance of Schlicht Springs River Access.

This is our first cache. Please let us know how we are doing. The cache is not handicap accessable. The cache is in a ammo box. In the box are the following contents:

Schedule
BookFirst aid Kit
Several Hotwheels cars
Golf Ball
2 Beanie Babies
McD Toy
Avon Foot Cream
2 Pencils
Log Book and pen.

A little history about the area.

When you get to the juction of Resort Rd and Riverside Rd if you look to your right you can see the ponds where the mill was as far as I can tell the mill is not there anymore. There are so many trees you can not see in the back of the property by the house to see if the mill is still standing.

This mill had been built by Joseph Strain. In 1840 he came to Missouri from Tennessee over an old Indian trail. Right here, two miles south of a town now called Crocker, in an oak and sycamore grove, he found the perfect spot for his mill. Nature provided the raw materials to work with and Strain proved masterful at using them. Dragging huge chunks of limestone from the bluffs of the river, he set the foundation and dammed up the spring for the millpond. He cut the timber, hand-hewed the pillars and beams. Evident in each heavily morticed joint, in each rugged scar left on the wood by the tremendous blows of his ax, was the iron grip and will instilled in this man. After four years of struggling, he completed what he called the Gasconade Mill and returned to Tennessee for his family. Later in 1862, intending to fight in the civil War, he sold his land to John Hensley, but instead he went back to Tennessee for good.

John Schliclt, who immigrated here from Frankfurt, Germany, bought the mill in 1876. Having only twenty-eight dollars to his name, he had arrived in this country ten years earlier. But the Schlichts were highly educated, and John was the eighth generation of millers in his family. His ingenuity and resourcefulness enabled him not only to buy the mill but to make several improvements to it and the surrounding land. He installed two more water wheels and built another pond as a source for power. He invented a roller mill machine to make flour as well as the meal and feed already ground by the stone burrs, and devised a revolutionary new way to bleach the flour he made. He diverted water from the spring to across the road where he also ran a general store, bar and barbershop.

It seemed that after he became the owner, John Schlicht's mill became more popular than ever. The name was changed from the Gasconade Mill to Schlicht Mill because of the owner's unfaltering hospitality extended to everyone. There seemed never to be a stranger to cross the threshold. From as far as forty miles around, farmers came by horseback, wagon, or any way they could just to get their grain ground at Schlicht's. Of course, since the area had developed into a busy little community, often people came to buy supplies, have their horses shod or just socialize a little.As the importance of water mills had dwindled so had Schlicht Mill. By 1945 the community had diminished, the people had gone home and the door had been locked.

You can find more information and some pictures of the Mill at (visit link)

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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