GC8XK77 Traditional Cache Moon Hill School - RCSH #17
Type: Traditional | Size: Small Small | Difficulty: 1.5 out of 5 | Terrain: 2 out of 5
By: momcheers @ | Hide Date: 07/20/2020 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N40° 39.369 W106° 56.495 | Last updated: 06/19/2022 | Fav points: 0
Takes less than an hour  Dangerous Animals  Ticks 

The 17th of a series of caches planned to be hidden at or near the historic rural schoolhouses of Routt County (RCSH - Routt County School Houses). See the first cache of this series (GC6QQ71) for a complete and updated list of the ones currently available - but this list will continue to grow as there were 96 schools which served Routt County neighborhoods from 1883 until 1960 when the rural districts consolidated.

There are descrepancies on how Moon Hill got it's name. Some say it was from the "crescent shaped face of the hill" and others clainm it was named after a miner named "Moon", either way, Moon Hill was School District #10 established in 1887. This present building was built in 1913 and was "one of the earliest frame schools in the county". It also had a teacherage and a barn for student's horses. This teacherage and barn burned in 1956. The school had been annexed into the Steamboat School District four years prior in 1952.

The Moon Hill school has remained a community center and was even used for a time by the North Routt Charter school before they built their building near Clark.

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when this building was built, there was no need for this pole!

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4 Logs: Found it 3  Publish Listing 1  

Found it 08/06/2020 By pogwog

Almost lucked into an FTF on this one. I was just a few days too slow. BigSmile Made short work of this one then headed back to the house.


pogwog
Strafford, MO
Found on 8/6/2020
Find #3885
Found with Geooh GO for Android and logged via GSAK v9.0

Found it 08/02/2020 By prairie drifter
Out for a beautiful drive. TFTC

Found it 08/01/2020 By MAGICN3
I have driven by this location several times recently and wondered why the CO did not have a cache at this schoolhouse. Problem solved. Thanks for a quick {FTF} grab and TFTC.

Publish Listing 07/31/2020 By IgnotusPeverell
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