GC1Q316 Traditional Cache Rockvale School
Type: Traditional | Size: Small Small | Difficulty: 2 out of 5 | Terrain: 2 out of 5
By: kingbee @ | Hide Date: 05/31/2009 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N37° 13.310 W108° 08.508 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
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The Rockvale school was built sometime around 1905 . The school was closed in 1948, in the area of western La Plata County, an area known as the Dryside and Hay Gulch in Schoolhouse Canyon. Then the students began attending an elementary school at the old Fort Lewis College south of Hesperus. Rockvale teachers arrived at the schoolhouse to fire up the coal heater and warm the schoolhouse before class started at 8 a.m. The school day, which lasted until about 4 p.m., . Windows and kerosene lamps lit the school until electricity came to Hay Gulch in the 1940s. I met the owner and he said he rebuilt it in 2000.
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9 Logs: Found it 8  Owner Maintenance 1  

Found it 05/02/2019 By AutumnEB
Thanks! I’ve come here before, before I started caching. Cool to know one was here the whole time. I liked the hide, not what I was expecting.

Found it 10/20/2018 By Bucket dog
We were trying to hit 500 G/C's before it gets too cold and the snow flies. Yours was our 500th. Thank you.

Found it 10/18/2018 By BreckieHunt
That was tricky! Fun find

Found it 10/13/2018 By bfewkwa
Fun location.

Found it 09/02/2018 By Gsmamma
Quick PNG. Thank you for maintaining with cash. Interesting history. Tftf

Found it 05/21/2018 By C. Spenc
Found it!

Found it 04/24/2018 By nmsunsets2
Hard to imagine kids going to school here. Thanks for the history. I love the preservation of the school. TFTC

Found it 04/14/2018 By TX2DGO
This was our first cache! We live very close so it was cool to check it our. Signed the log and left it as is. Fun!

Owner Maintenance 07/24/2017 By kingbee
fixed