SHM #238 Huffaker 2 Mystery Cache
RoadRunner: This cache is technically a virtual cache and it's outside the guidelines. It never should have been published. Thanks. -RR
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Get a picture of yourself in front of the State Historic Marker and post your picture on the internet for the cache find, but *** BE WARNED **** The local owner of a near by buisness is harassing geocachers for stopping to read the state historic marker. I believe everybody should have a right to see Nevada History.
If he approaches you, just tell him you stopped to read the sign. HUFFAKER'S Before the arrival, 1858, of Granville W. Huffaker driving 500 head of cattle into the Truckee Meadows, the principal settlers were Mormons. The Comstock Lode and its mining needs focused attention on the valley. Huffaker established his ranch in 1859. Langton's Stage Line and the first Post Office were functioning by 1862. For ten years Huffaker's was a most active stage-stop and a center for a community. The school house was constructed in 1868. Bachelors of a jolly nature gathered here for dancing, horse-racing and "Land Squabbles." The Athenian Literary Society flourished for the more cultured. In 1875 the "Bonanza Kings" completed their Pacific Lumber and Flume operation from the Lake Tahoe Basin. For fifteen miles trestled logs were propelled "by waters rushing faster than any train." At the terminus of the flume, the Virginia and Truckee Railroad opened a depot and telegraph office and constructed a spur where workers transferred timbers.
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