The buck is here! Traditional Geocache
Nomex: As there's been no cache to find for months, I'm archiving it to keep it from continually showing up in search lists, and to prevent it from blocking other cache placements. If you wish to repair/replace the cache sometime in the future, just contact us (by email), and assuming it meets the guidelines, we'll be happy to unarchive it.
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Nice quite little area. Watch out for muggles and please bring a pen.
What is now Anamosa was founded as the settlement of Buffalo Forks in 1838 and incorporated as Lexington in 1856. Lexington was a very popular name for towns at that time, so when Lexington chose to become incorporated as a city in 1877, the name was changed to Anamosa to avoid mail delivery confusion. There are many different stories on how Anamosa was chosen as a name, but all of them center around a local Native American girl named Anamosa, which means white fawn. The original site of Anamosa sits upon the junction of the Buffalo Creek with the Wapsipinicon River. Riverside Cemetery, which is located across from the Wapsipinicon State Park, is the final resting place for the founding fathers Col. William Shaw and Edmund Booth.
Wapsipinicon State Park is one of Iowa's oldest state parks, created in 1921. Located on the southwest end of Anamosa, the Wapsipinicon State Park offers camping, fishing, golf and hiking.
In 1983, the Anamosa Library was listed as one of three Eastern Iowa libraries entered in the National Register of Historic Places. In November of 2004, the new Anamosa Library and Learning Center opened and the Anamosa Police Department moved into the former library building in May of 2005.
Anamosa was named as the Pumpkin Capital of Iowa by the Iowa State Legislature in 1993 and hosts Pumpkinfest, a pumpkin festival and weigh-off, every year in October.
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