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Irvine Historical Museum by jshults (Rally Dude, Square D Team) (1.5/1.5)
N33° 39.829 W117° 49.929 (WGS84) UTM 11S E 422850 N 3725192 Use waypoint: GC16C8H Size:  Regular Hidden on 10/1/2007
In California, United States Difficulty:  Terrain:
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| Small to regular sized cache WITH a pencil and NOT Fizzy... It looks like the FTF Strike Force was up late and beat everyone to the punch on this one. Congratulations and we hope you learned a lot of History at the Museum. |
The Irvine Historical Society is dedicated to preserving the rich heritage of the Irvine Ranch, once one of the largest private ranches in the United States. The Society is headquartered at the Irvine Historical Museum, the oldest standing structure within the original boundaries of the Ranch. In 1868, James Irvine I commissioned a house to be built that would be suitable for him to stay when he visited the ranch to conduct business. The home was built with the intent of having a ranch manager installed. It was built for a cost of $1,300 and known as the San Joaquin Ranch house. It was the first wooden house to be erected between Anaheim and San Diego. The house featured a kitchen, dining room, parlor, four bedrooms, and a wrap-around porch.
The Ranch manager moved to the house in 1870 and his wife and daughter arrived within a few months. There were problems with coyotes, wildcats, fleas, and zero neighbors as far as the eye could see. The Museum is shown to the left in the photo. It was originally used as the cooking wing for the cattle and sheep camp which was located onsite. The Irvine house was torn down in 1971 during the grading of the golf course.
The Irvine Historical Museum is located at 5 San Joaquin, Irvine, CA 92612. The building backs to the San Joaquin Golf Course [centered between University and Michelson Drives and Culver Drive and Harvard Road] Phone (949) 786-4112. Standard hours of operation are Tuesday and Sunday from 1 to 4 ; closed holidays. Please call before you come to ensure the Museum is open. We are staffed entirely by volunteers, and sometimes the Museum is not able to be open during scheduled periods. Members are free; a $1.00 donation per non-member is appreciated. A research library and extensive photo collection of local historic information is available for students, researchers, and business use during open hours.
Find out more info on the Society Website
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Current at 5/24/2008
5/22/2008 by ulogoit
TFTC, left some swag...box was pretty empty, took TB.
4/25/2008 by Cacheflyer
A cute little museum and nice golf course view at this cache! TFTC SL
4/20/2008 by ceulazelle
easy find but grabbing it was another story, too many muggles around. We dropped a geocoin and a TB. TFTC
4/17/2008 by ycats&ekard
Picked up this cache on my way home today. Great location and an even better hiding spot. SL. TFTC. Ycats.
4/10/2008 by KChaney56
Teamed up with BikenFind for some IST on speedcaching and lots of good exercise.
TFTC
4/10/2008 by BikeNfind
Teamed with KChaney56 for some O.C. Bike-N-Caching in Irvine this afternoon! ~
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After looking in all the obvious places, I wandered around and KChaney56 called asking if I found it... NO that's not what he said, He was telling me HE FOUND IT!
I FOUND IT!!!
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~ THANKS ! ! ! ! ~~ TNLNSL ~~
4/5/2008 by eastmanb
Great little spot, I was surprised to find such a big cache in a spot like this. TFTC TN, L: Cards, SL
3/11/2008 by BoydChicks
Usually I smack my head on these type of objects but not today, I got lucky and found the cache without injury. Thanks for the hide.
3/9/2008 by Santa & Mrs.
A beautiful day to be out with Team Rand and the two dogs. We love going to places that we didn't know that we wanted to visit. That always adds to the joy of our sport. Great stuff there TNLNSL Thanks for this cache
3/9/2008 by Team Rand
Fun and interesting location. Thanks for showing us this area.
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