GC89F34 Potter's Field
Type: Multi | Size: Micro | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: slade2029 @ | Hide Date: 06/13/2019 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N39° 02.785 W108° 34.338 | Last updated: 06/19/2022 | Fav points: 0

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This is one of a series of caches that are associated with the local history

 The actual cache is located in Potter’s Field, not located at this location. Use the clue to be found at this location to decipher the actual location.

 On December 23, 1883 the Grand Junction News reported that Baby Garland was the first to be buried in this cemetery in 1881. The second was B.A Scott and then P.H. Gordon who died by drowning in the river while chasing cattle rustlers.

 In 1883 this field was homesteaded by Joseph Harper and then sold to General William Palmer, founder of the Denver & Rio Grand Railroad. Palmer’s estate sold the property to James Rankin in 1919 whom sold it to the City of Grand Junction that same day.

The clue is located on City property which is called Potter’s Field. The cache is located on Mesa County property, the actual location of Potter’s Field cemetery.

 

• Those Known to Rest Here:
• • Baby Garland, died 1881
  • B. A. Scott, died 1881
  • P. H. Gordon, died 1883
  • Elmer Price, died 1911
  • Bertha Kaufman (see below)
  • Mrs. A. A. Middaugh, 1890-1913
  • Mary Middaugh, 1908-1913
  • Julian Pacheco, 1913-1936

• Kaufman, Bertha, 1908-1911

• Unknown
• • We Care, V.F.W., A.L., D.A.V., WWI
  • Unknown #2
  • Unknown #3
  • Unknown #4
  • Unknown #5
  • Unknown #6

You can check your answers for this puzzle on GeoChecker.com.

Congrats to Rojo464 for FTF

Additional Waypoints

03/22/2020 By BG2015
Completed final stage today, saw the obvious clues but needed a hint to make sense of it, nice puzzle, thanks.

03/15/2020 By Sylvia Carman
We came out yesterday and found stage one, went home and Kerry figured out the final. TFTC

03/15/2020 By BG2015
More of a puzzle than a multi. Found stage one in good shape, but the 5 X’s aren’t much of a clue to solve for final.

03/15/2020 By carman.kerry
We solved the 5 X's and got the second stage coordinates. So we were just sitting there thinking the same thing, "Let's go look!" We struggled for a bit until Sly found it. We squeezed the date and initials onto the log: "3-15-20 SLY + KC". Container and log are in great shape! Thanks for bringing us back here.

#1851



Found stage one and now on to the next!

09/28/2019 By cllecr
Followed a hint I'd heard and located it. Thanks for bringing us here! TFTC! cllecr

07/04/2019 By blueskiescindy
Looked and thought for a long time ...

07/01/2019 By slade2029
Altered the description, the X issue should be corrected.

06/26/2019 By Charlie-n-Geri
Fishlogger's idea worked well. The first stage formula was not solvable. We also found the remains of a previous cache that was just outside the fence. To save space, we entered FL and CNG in the log. TFTC

06/26/2019 By fishlogger
had an idea of how to go about this cache... c-n-g and i went down this evening and tried my idea and it worked after about 20 minutes of looking... forget about the 5x's as the formula is flawed. it is a good cache otherwise...T4TC, SL.

06/15/2019 By Rojo464
FTF!! Well, that was interesting. All the times we have been past here and didn’t realize a cemetery was here. We tried a lot of different ways to solve this, finally got it. TFTC I’ll give this a favorite!