Where's It Come From? Traditional Cache
paddlehikers: While the cache and contents were in great shape and exactly where placed, the referenced signboard no longer exists, a washed out bridge now requires a potentially difficult stream crossing and the trail is overgrown. Container retrieved. Thanks for all the great logs!
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For years, people have been coming here to get it. Some actually get it here daily. No doubt they can get something like it at home, but they prefer getting it here. There’s a pretty good chance in fact, that you’ll see someone getting it while you’re here.
“It” of course, is pure and natural drinking water, so bring along some jugs and get some for yourself! Then go see where it comes from.
The coordinates above are for the famous and highly cherished "filling station" at the Salmon River Recreational Area, which dispenses water from a true artesian well located on the former site of Camp Stuart. To find the cache, a medium size lock-n-lock, you will need to find the well. Park near the signboard you passed on the way in and take a short, pleasant walk to N41 32.856 W072 26.804. You’ll be glad you did, because there is more to “it” than that.
Camp Stuart was founded in 1935 as home to the 1194 Company of the Civilian Conservation Corps. These particular “CCC” members were largely responsible for forestry maintenance, road construction and recreational development. Some notable examples of the outstanding accomplishments of the camp personnel were the preservation of the Comstock Bridge, (Just across the street and home to one of Connecticut’s most elusive micros), construction of a new dam at Day Pond, (a place that calls out to some of geocaching’s “Biggest Losers”) and fishing access for disabled veterans of WW1 along the Blackledge River, (not far from a cache that drew its first headlamped finder in the wee hours of a chilly morn…). The folks of 1194 Company also took on the task of developing ski trails above the camp, but later abandoned the challenge of upkeep due to lack of annual snowfall, as was the case with similar endeavors in Manchester and Mansfield.
Time and the effects of Mother Nature have erased most signs of the camp, but the water still flows. Come see where it comes from and while you’re there; pay a little homage to the pioneers of open space that provided us with so many unspoiled places to hide things!
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