Travel Bug Dog Tag Love Bug-Ropesville Yellow Scalloped Wood

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Released:
Sunday, July 24, 2016
Origin:
Texas, United States
Recently Spotted:
Unknown Location

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Current Goal

This trackable has the modest goal to circulate more than five years and to be moved by at least 25 cachers.  That is a rate of five drops per year for five years, or a drop every 73 days.  As of 21-Jul-20 it had survived for 3.9 years and had been moved by 15 cachers, for an average release every 96 days.

No permission is needed to leave the U.S.  While in the U.S., please drop it in a Premium Member only OR a rural cache near a busy trail or road. Do not place it in an urban cache or abandon it at a caching event where there is no security.  Transport the bug in the original plastic bag for as long as the bag lasts; the bag keeps the trackable clean, protects the number and prevents tangling with other items.  Otherwise, take the trackable anywhere you wish.

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About This Item

This is one of a series of heart-shaped items converted to Travel Bugs.  They are named either for their place of origin or for Texas Panhandle/South Plains towns with interesting names or histories.

Ropesville was the first settlement of Hockley County and developed when the Spade Ranch opened for colonization in the early 1900s. When the South Plains and Santa Fe Railroad Company ran a line from Lubbock to Seagraves, the company agreed to build stock pens, switches, a section house and a depot on land donated by the Spade Ranch. Spade Ranch cowboys constructed rope corrals to hold cattle for shipment and called the location Ropes. The railroad also used that name for the Depot. However, when the community became large enough to apply for a post office, the name Ropes was rejected by officials because there was a similarly-named Texas settlement, Ropers. The name Ropesville was submitted and accepted, but the depot building and the sign at the cemetery still bear the original name. After the depot was closed by the railroad, the building was moved and placed among other historic structures of the region at the Ranching Heritage Center in Lubbock.

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Tracking History (9263.8mi) View Map

Visited 7/27/2019 Blue Canary took it to VT History Cache #12 - Lt Col Earl Cobeil Mississippi - .1 miles  Visit Log
Visited 7/27/2019 Blue Canary took it to VT History Cache #11 - PO1 Stephen Morris Mississippi - .69 miles  Visit Log
Visited 7/27/2019 Blue Canary took it to Hole in Two ⛳⛳ Mississippi - .15 miles  Visit Log
Visited 7/27/2019 Blue Canary took it to Hole in One ⛳ Mississippi - .47 miles  Visit Log
Visited 7/27/2019 Blue Canary took it to VT History Cache #10 - TSgt Jasper Page Mississippi - .13 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 7/27/2019 Blue Canary retrieved it from VT History Cache #9 - Maj Henry Commiskey Mississippi   Visit Log

moving on
Discovered It 3/8/2019 shalimargeosearchers discovered it Mississippi   Visit Log

Discovered as dbrockhouse was dropping it In VT History Cache #9 - Maj Henry Commiskey.
Dropped Off 3/8/2019 dbrockhouse placed it in VT History Cache #9 - Maj Henry Commiskey Mississippi - 155.96 miles  Visit Log
Visited 3/7/2019 dbrockhouse took it to Hi-C's Florida - 28.56 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 2/22/2019 dbrockhouse retrieved it from zodiak zone - alive! Florida   Visit Log

Grabbed it from the cache in the woods by a really old cemetery. Will move it along.
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