CHARLIE'S PLACE Traditional Cache
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This cache was named for Charles Hendel; a long time resident of Hawthorne who was instrumental in many successful civic and public projects. He came to Hawthorne in 1929 after many years gaining construction experience in mining, oil field work and water resource projects. He was the Inspector of Construction at the rapidly building Hawthorne Ammunition Depot.
Charlie was one of those responsible for the highway you came over to get to this cache. While serving as an Assemblyman he pushed, as only someone like Charlie could, to get it constructed.
Charlie suffered only two failures that I am aware of when it came to getting something done.
One: He tried for years to bring water down from the Columbia River in America’s northwest into Nevada for agricultural development. He had all the engineering data to prove it could be done but he was unsuccessful in this endeavor.
Two: He and his wife Helen built a home on the cache site and developed this area as a Boy Scout Camp. (There was a huge play ground / camp across the road) He had an observation tower built on the second floor of the house whereby he maintained a small corps of civilian observers (usually Boy Scouts) who acted as fire lookouts. They had a 99 year lease on the land from the Forest Services and as they got older ( with Helen dying in 1969) he wanted some one to take “Mark Twain Camp” , as he called it, over to maintain and keep up. No one was interested and after his death during October of 1976, the Forest Service, after having to evict numerous tramps and hippies and worried about the fire danger, tore the house down and buried the remains. The numerous telephone poles that had been erected across the road for Boy Scout use, were cut down or removed.
About all remaining, to remember Charlie and Helen by, are a few scattered nails and a few of the rock paths that they built.
The cache is an ammo can filled with the usual goodies and our “Susan B” for the first to find.
Additional Hints
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