GC4481H Swallows
Type: Traditional | Size: Small | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: winning @ | Hide Date: 01/11/2013 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N38° 19.122 W104° 44.354 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0

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Placed with the help of a young cacher who attends this establishment.

Due to all the terrible events that our happening in our schools I had to move this three times, each time getting father and farther from the reason for this cache. Thanks to dlbisblest who I enlisted for help, it now rests in a nice safe secure location ready to be enjoyed along with Long Gone, which is the second part of this one. Thanks dlbisblest.

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This school is named to honor the once thriving community of Swallows, located 13 miles west of Pueblo. All that remains today of the once vibrant town is the still active cemetery. The people who settled that valley during the 1870's, 1880's and 1890's were hardy farmers, ranchers, railroaders, and quarrymen, who were determined to carve out a living in The West. The community occupied both sides of the Arkansas River. Two railroad lines, one on each side of the river, hauled coal and gold from around the Canon City area. Many harrowing experiences befell the school children who had to cross over the river on a suspension foot bridge to attend classes on the other side. With school, dance hall, and depot always on the 'other side' the bridge was kept busy. At noon on Sunday, June 3, 1921 the crest of the Big Flood struck the community and swept nearly everything away. In 1960 the Bureau of Reclamation purchased the land and its structures were either moved or bulldozed to prepare for the inundation of the Pueblo Reservoir.

07/02/2019 By marieega
Gizmo

06/02/2019 By Brodscoob10
Cool

05/30/2019 By kelperry
Too easy

05/18/2019 By skyfraz1
super fun

05/10/2019 By Yelpeld
Geocaching with my beautiful granddaughter Sydnee. TFTFun

09/08/2018 By mikesextreme76
Found it

09/08/2018 By sniperaustim
Easy find

08/19/2018 By billis744
Found by my 6yr old son left a new little item

07/25/2018 By johnbrug
Awesome

07/25/2018 By johnbrug
Didn’t see anything anywhere

07/15/2018 By SeekDaCache
Once we learned about the Hidden Creature Challenge we knew we would have to travel in order to complete the challenge. We simply did not have one hundred caches within 40 miles to be able to log. Since we had not been in the Pueblo area for years we decided to cache our way to and then in the area.

Our second day of caching in and around the Pueblo area before heading home, included more maintenance on 10 more caches. We replaced caches, logs and containers on ignored caches by the owners. We had completed the Hidden Creature Challenge yesterday but enjoyed the new area while adding to our numbers. SL,TNLN,TFTC


Thank you winning for placing this cache for our enjoyment.

06/15/2018 By Bluskwirl
Quick and easy! TFTCSL