GC32H1C Back In Time - Dubois & Toliafero
Type: Traditional | Size: Micro | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: The Meandering Monkeys @ | Hide Date: 08/10/2011 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N38° 16.850 W107° 10.577 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
                 

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Go Back In Time To Dubois & Toliafero, Colorado

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Micro located in the Dubois & Toliafero area which are now on private property. Cache is placed for year round accessibility. Bring your own pen & tweezers.

Please make sure container is closed securely and re-hidden as well or better than you found it. Maintaining the difficulty rating depends on you.

Dubois History: In 1892, Goose Creek was established in the Gunnison Gold Belt. Goose Creek was later renamed Dubois. Dubois had a post office from 1894 – 1910.

Toliafero History: In 1895, Nugget City was established on Goose Creek near Dubois. Nugget City was later renamed Toliafero at the request of the US Post Office because another Nugget City existed near Golden. Toliafero was also referred to as Tolifaro, Tolliver, and Taliafaro. Toliafero had a post office from 1896 to 1898.

As Dubois and Toliafero grew, the nearby mining towns wanted their own school. The closest school was 7 miles away in Powderhorn. The deep snows and severe winters made transportation to the Powderhorn school impossible. Dubois and Toliafero petitioned the county superintendent to form District 27. The petition was granted only to be revoked due to (1) a protest and suit from Spencer District 15 and (2) the original petition containing signatures from residents outside the Dubois and Toliafero area.

Dubois and Toliafero revised the legal description of the proposed district so it would not infringe upon Spencer. The county superintendent granted the revised petition and District 28 was formed. District 28 also included the Gateview area. In 1903, the Dubois school was abandoned.

Information primarily taken from Gunnison County Historic Preservation website and "What's In A Name?" by Charles A. Page (1974).

Please take some time to reflect back on the lives of these pioneers and the effort it took to make Colorado such a great state!!

Back In Time Series:

Back In Time is a series of caches placed near historic sites to remind us to remember our past. We can learn so much from studying the past. This series will provide a history tour of Colorado.

Their days are gone but not forgotten!!

Additional Waypoints

R132H1C - Dubois Mine
N 38° 20.966 W 107° 10.837

R232H1C - Goose Creek Mine
N 38° 21.166 W 107° 10.503

04/17/2019 By poeanne
I am doing a solo run through southeast Colorado trying to pick up counties and DeLorme squares. This is my last day of my three day journey.

I'm in Colorado for a family ski trip, and I couldn't resist coming a couple of days early and grabbing a few more Colorado counties!! This was the cache I chose for Gunnison County!!

10/30/2018 By HikingSeal
After my adventures try to get a cache in Hinsdale county, I wasn’t sure if my planned cache for Gunnison county was the best idea now. I started looking for an easy one right on the road. This is what I came up with. In reading the cache page, I noticed the formatting suggested it was the same owner as the Hinsdale cache. Hopefully this one would be similar. I pulled over and spotted the cache almost immediately. Thank goodness! I was kind of cooked from what ended up being way more of a long drive than I planned thanks to the weather and I still had to get back to my hotel in Montrose. A heartfelt thanks for the cache here!

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09/07/2018 By IowaGerd
Got this one while backtracking to the Motel.

08/12/2018 By beyobe
Nice clean quick cache full of great history.

08/12/2018 By me&marley
Thank you so much for all the history on this cache, I enjoyed it very much.

08/09/2018 By kdrturbo3
Tftc. Container a mess Replaced container

06/10/2018 By 3girls&1guy
Enjoying reading about the history of the area. Easy find. Thanks.

06/09/2018 By ABQRaz
Explored this area on the way to discover new places in Colorado we hadn't visited before.

The cache was significantly damaged and missing its lid, so we did some field-repairs. We do recommend that the CO pay a visit to the site when given a chance to inspect the field-repairs. SL. TFTC!