| Current at 3/7/2007 (Online waypoint URL) |
2-4-16 by geojeepr (1/1)
N33° 42.095 W117° 57.746 (WGS84)
UTM 11S E 410810 N 3729485
Use waypoint: GCRE33
Size: Small Hidden on 11/20/2005
In California, United States
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| I estimated the coords based on several very different readings coming from several different directions. Please let me know if i need to change them. If you get in the general area...I don't think you'll have a problem finding it! |
GeoNik and I were driving from one cache we had just placed to another selected location, and we came upon this interesting "Historical Marker". So we thought we would place a cache here. This was a spur on the moment, totally unplanned cache.
Log book, a few small trinkets...bring your own pen.
Thanks to Amtrackr- here is some interesting info on this location:
ESCALANTE CIRCUS
Beginning in the mid-twenties, "El Circo Escalante" began to visit this area. The Spanish speaking circus was headed by the Escalante Family and traveled in the United States, Mexico and Europe. Annually, a large tent, visible from quite a distance, was erected about 300 feet east of the intersection of Talbert Avenue and Bushard Street.
After the tent was up, the parade, letting the surrounding area know "the circus was in town," would travel on the dirt road from the tent east on Talbert Avenue. About a mile east, it would turn north on Ward Street and pass the Mexican-American community of Colonia Juarez. Then, it would head west on Wintersberg Avenue (now Warner) to the settlement of Wintersberg (a quarter mile west of Beach Boulevard). From there, it would return to the circus tent.
After the colorful parade, the first show would begin with performers, clowns, puppet shows, and animal acts. One of the acts was a clown, Mr. Bell, who played music on bottles filled with water.
POST OFFICE(*)
Before the days of Rural Free Delivery (RFD), distributing the mail to small communities and individual farmers was set with problems. Bandits roving in the Gospel Swamps tulies constantly robbed and even murdered those who carried the mail from Santa Ana to the outlying communities. Because of this, the Santa Ana Post Office would not deliver the mail. However, a frail looking woman, Mrs. Mary Swift, took the job of picking up the mail at the settlement of Bolsa (now the intersection of Bolsa and Brookhurst). Despite the objections of the Santa Ana Postmaster, she got the hazardous task when she declared, "I have the Lord in heaven and a cat-o'nine-tails in my hand."
In the early months of 1899, John Corbett applied for the establishment of a post office with the name of Fountain Valley. When he sold the store a few months later to Tom Talbert, the latter applied the name of Talbert. It was established on November 15, 1899 as Talbert, California and continued as such until it was reclassified as a rural branch of the Santa Ana Post Office in 1957 when our city was incorporated. (We still have a Santa Ana ZIP Code because of our former rural branch designation.
COUNTRY STORE
When this community was first started, most of the families would travel by horse and wagon, once a month to Santa Ana for food and other supplies. Besides these trips, the community was supplied by traveling purveyors passing through from farm to farm selling Kraft cheeses, Watkins products (tea, spices, cough medicine, linament, salves, and cures for all ailments), cloth and sewing materials and notions, and staples (flour, sugar, Epsom salts, and block salt for the animals). These wagons continued their round through the 1920's
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Current at 3/7/2007
2/16/2007 by jshults (Rally Dude, Square D Team)
not there...
2/8/2007 by MIBAlienHunter
Out doing some clean up with Sham today,but it looks like someone beat us to this one...
2/4/2007 by ShamRider
Out caching with MIB on Super Bowl Sunday. We looked high and low for this 1/1 and came up empty-handed. I think this one is MIA.
1/20/2007 by cache_in_pocket
Looked and looked, but came up empty. Called for our lifeline but no reply. So, we went and grabbed her. Anyway, she couldn't find it (and had found it before) and is pretty sure it is muggled, unless it moved from the location she found it. Anyway, we looked everywhere we could think of and didn't find it.
1/14/2007 by MK3 cachers
T-Glass star L- Vikings tabletop football.
TFTC.
1/1/2007 by littledebbie
cool and educational. tftc. :)
1/1/2007 by sightunseen
Great location for a spontaneus cache. Thanks for the history lesson! L-Pencil I accidently stole from another cache. my bad
12/29/2006 by Trollinda
Found this while in the area with the Trollkids.
Smalltroll happily traded a glass star and a dime
for a lizard and a bear. Signed log.
Thanks!
12/23/2006 by potshot
Got it at about 1:00 AM with no muggles around. A few cops were cruising around so I had to be quick. I didn't read the marker. I figured it was just a general info sign. Thanks for the history lesson. TNLNSL
Thanks!
Happy Hunting!
12/10/2006 by lagunahawk
Interesting info! We enjoyed reading some history about the area. TFTC!
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