Ghost Town Trilogy (2) - Inspiration Tree Mystery Traditional Cache
Ghost Town Trilogy (2) - Inspiration Tree Mystery
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part two of the ghost town trilogy. another small container adds to the sequence of contents.
This cache (and the next) is located on the toughest part of Roxbury Road. You've made it this far in a Jeep, Hummer, or similar suv. This part of the road is not family sedan friendly. You've now gained deep inspiration as you sit and medidate against the Inspiration Tree. If you felt inspired, take the right trinket and sign your name.
Near the end of this old road you will discover some of the remains of an abandoned settlement that once contained as many as 135 people. It had its own school, two lumber mills, a grist mill, and numerous farms and orchards. All that remains of the settlement are graveyards, apple orchards, foundation depressions, stone walls, and one building. The Rosengreen House, built between 1860 and 1870, is the only remaining structure. Otherwise, white spruce has grown into the former fields, and a few hunting camps are the only signs of human activity. The only cleared land is near the Rosengreen, and this is rapidly growing over with each passing year. A number of factors caused people to leave the area. The settlement survived on lumbering, but they were so successful that they depleted most of the resource in their area. The winter of 1895 was so severe that lumbering operations were cancelled due to deep snow, and the Great Fire of 1900 destroyed thousands of acres of woodland. Inspiration Tree was scorched by the fire but was left standing.
Adopted cache from Babylakes.
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