GC6RPJ7 The Holden Garden Riot (SAHGE #14) (Traditional Cache) in California, United States created by mogar

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Nomex: The cache owner is not responding to issues with this geocache, so I must regretfully archive it.

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GC6RPJ7 ▼

A cache by mogar Message this owner

Hidden : 9/6/2016

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Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

This cache was placed was placed as part of the Sonora Area Historical Geo-Event GC:GC6R4Z

If you want to know more about the history behind cache, you can read the images below. Big thanks to the Tuolumne County Historical Society for letting me use the articles below.

Fistcuffs, gamblers with guns and a riot over mining rights. The Holden Garden Riot is an example of what can happen in a mining town when people start taking things a bit too far. This was not the only incident between miners regarding claim disputes but this particular incident resulted in one death and large scale of panic. So much so that Sonora residents took to barricading themselves in their homes with rifles and pistols. If you are reading this near GZ, you might very well be standing in the spot where a battle between miners and gamblers took place and Joshua Holden bloodied up a couple miners during a fistcuffs bout.