Heartwell Hide Traditional Cache

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Heartland Cacher: Greetings,

It has been a while since I first looked at Heartwell Hide. I can't find any recent responses about maintaining this cache so it will be archived and removed from the active cache listings.

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Hidden : 4/24/2005
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

Parking nearby and the walk is an easy walk over uneven terrain.

This park had a cache in it quite a while ago and I thought it was time for another. This is a very nice as well as active park. There are a lot of things you can do here from fishing to usual park activities. I have also included some interesting history of the park.

Heartwell Park is named for James B. Heartwell, owner and creator of the once privately owned park. J.B. Heartwell was a prominent businessman, promoter and politician in the 1880s. He came to Hastings in 1879 and quickly established himself as one of the town's leading citizens. He was the first president of the board of trustees of Hastings College; he served in the state legislature; and he built the finest house the county has ever known. But the pioneer banker's fortunes turned sour in the Not-So-Gay Nineties of early Nebraska, and he left for California in 1896.

Most conspicuous among the many things which make up the legacy of J.B. Heartwell in Adams County, however, is the twenty-acre park which bears his name. Heartwell originally created the park on the east side of the city as a preserve for family and friends and as a source of ice for the Heartwell mansion. But it was generally open to the public and became a favorite of local recreation seekers. It was also part of a larger, forty-five acre development called "Heartwell's Park Addition," which included the park, a golf course (the first in Adams County), and a plat containing fifty-seven residential lots. What made Heartwell Park unique was that it was designed by a landscape architect, A.N. Carpenter of Galesburg, Illinois, and was the region's first planned residential neighborhood to include landscaping as a vital component. It was this last point that caused the park and surrounding area to be included in the National Register of historic Places.

In April 1886, the Hastings Gazette-Journal reported that "Heartwell's park in the eastern part of the city is being rapidly improved this spring. Twenty-five men are busy putting in trees and making other improvements. A very attractive feature will be an artificial lake in the center." The lake was such a source of pride for the community that the Hastings Tribune obituary of Harry T. Ingalls in August, 1932 noted that he helped construct the lake with an team of oxen and a hand- controlled drag as part of that effort.

By the early 1890s the lake was used for boating, fishing and ice-skating. After Heartwell abandoned the park in 1896, local cold storage companies cut blocks of ice at the lake. It was this commercial use of the lake that eventually influenced the city of Hastings to purchase Heartwell Park.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Qba’g fgho lbhe gbr ba guvf bar.

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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