Telegraph City Traditional Cache

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isolino: Moved out of state.

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Hidden : 8/27/2006
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:

We were exploring some back roads the other day and came across this..........

There are no houses on this road and no signs or plaques, I have no idea what this structure used to be but its very interesting. If any body knows any thing about the history of this place I would love to know. I did notice that nearby on the county map is a place called Telegraph City, I'm assuming that this structure used to be a part of that city. There is another foundation across the street and this square looking building...........

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These structures are on private property, but you do not have to cross the fence to get to the cache.
There are rock walls almost the entire length of the road, and other rock walls along the way. This is definitely worth the drive.
There is a lot of trash in the area and I saw a bunch of shotgun shells across the road so be careful.

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Thanks to WRITE SHOP ROBERT for meeting up with the owner (Mr. Hatler) of this property and providing the following information.

The largest of the foundations on the other side of the gate, to the left of the windmill was a beautiful, immaculate barn "fit for a postcard" built on the stone foundation. It was painted white with green trim, and white gates at the openings in the front of the wall, with stalls built inside the stone walls that you see now. I'm not clear on what was on the upper level, most likely the hay loft.

Next, if you look to the right of the windmill, you will see a much smaller foundation, which used to be a workshop (Mr. Hatler remembers cars in there as a kid, but before that it was a blacksmith shop).

As you continue to pan around too the right and look across the road, you can see what looks like some random rocks around the field about 120 feet on the other side of the fence, this was his mothers house.

Now you will be coming to the rectangular foundation that is pretty small, and almost directly across the street from the Cache. This was the store.

To the right of the store there is a palm tree, and once there was another house next to that. After it was bought and was being painted for the new owners, some rags caught fire and burned that house down.

The next structure is the square one down the street that still has the roof on it, this was the water storage tank.

There were a few more houses over the years on the other side of the hill past that tank.

It's confirmed, this is "TELEGRAPH CITY", where most of the Chinese residents lived in tents, so that would make this just about "Downtown".

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 When place cache contained the following:
Geoletter
Log book and pen
2 Travel Bugs
2 Toy cars
3 Toy Snakes
1 Stretchy crab
6 Assorted frogs
1 Toy cow
1 Lizard
1 Dinosaur
1 Goat
2 Key chains




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Decryption Key

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