GC3WEM1 Traditional Cache Hastings Ghost Town
Type: Traditional | Size: Small Small | Difficulty: 1 out of 5 | Terrain: 1.5 out of 5
By: DrStan43 @ | Hide Date: 09/09/2012 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N37° 20.329 W104° 37.523 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
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Small square lock-lock box. Watch for cow chips.
Less than two miles west of the Ludlow Monument, a sad tale is told by a lone marker nestled in the weeds. The Victor American Mine Disaster was a fire at the Victor American Fuel Company coal mine in Hastings, Colorado, on April 27, 1917, in which 121 people died. Hastings, Colorado was a coal mining town that became a ghost town after the disaster. After a time, nothing remained except for the coke ovens and a few remnants of building foundations.

Since my last name is Hastings, I thought this would be an interesting site to visit. You can learn more by going to google and putting in Victor American Hastings Mine Disaster. The cache container is a small square lock-lock box that contains a few swag items and a money clip with a $1 bill for the FTF.
Congratulations to gjsikma, Vulcan64, AussieCacher, and Clubmus for being FTF.
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10 Logs: Found it 10  

Found it 03/29/2019 By BNMarshall
Awesome place to see, interesting history. Easy find. Took a trinket, left one. Thank you for this cache :)

Found it 02/09/2019 By Army Girl & USMC EOD
What history! TFTC! Cache looks good.

~Army Girl & USMC EOD

Found it 01/08/2019 By SockeyeDave
Passing through the area from Prescott, AZ. Out and about discovering new country. Quick find/ located without a problem. Found in good condition. Nice piece of history - thanks for bringing me here - and a favorite for me. TFTC Cool

Found it 10/20/2018 By scraftn
Thanks!

Found it 09/27/2018 By alpinemm
A little fun on the way from Tucson to Denver. Thanks for placing these caches to break up the trip. We probably wouldn't have found our way to this if we hadn't decided to look at the Ludlow Massacre site. So we learned two new historic facts. Thanks.

Found it 08/14/2018 By zeili
TFTC. Quite an interesting historical area in the area of labour. Left a pathtag.

Found it 07/25/2018 By holman_family
Nice memorial. Put back but couldn't cover ran into a mean black widow and i didn't want to fight it.

Found it 06/06/2018 By srbisblest
Found with dlbisblest. Nice hide. Interesting area. SL. TFTC.

Found it 06/06/2018 By dlbisblest
Quiet area today and a nice hide. TNLN. SL. TFTC.

Found it 03/09/2018 By loneranger
After a stop at the Ludlow Memorial, loneranger continued down the road to make a quick find here and drop a TB. Did a little maintenance to improve cache concealment as it was a bit visible. Another interesting bit of Colorado history, TFTC