GC36XXR Traditional Cache May be. May be not.
Type: Traditional | Size: Not chosen Not chosen | Difficulty: 1.5 out of 5 | Terrain: 1.5 out of 5
By: winning @ | Hide Date: 10/30/2011 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N38° 22.172 W105° 09.808 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
Another ghost town. Hadn't been found in awhile so I checked on it. Its there. I enformed the neighbors so some of them are in the fun.
Imagine a town large enough to need and justify the size of the YMCA building across the street. This was no little podunk town back in those early years.
Thousands of people lived here and shopped here and went to school.
The very first resident was William May a fellow who'd been flooded out twice before in Penrose and Hardscrabble. Choosing to build on higher ground he used cottonwood trees for this cabin. Small gun holes were cut out on the other side of the building. (Remains can be seen) He ranched in undisturbed bachelorhood in 1866 little knowing the millions of tons of coal that lay underneath him. He got along well with the Utes who frequently passed through his pastures. They never failed to close his gates which was more than he could say for some whites. When coal was discovered he became a partner with the Rockafellows (relative of the well known ones)
Mr May was a much loved resident of the area. He died, still single, in 1888 and is buried in Greenwood Cemetery (where there are 2 geocaches)Funds are being raised (at this writing) to repair his tombstone.
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small, real small
Replaced container in December when it disappeared after rushman and farm girl signed log. new log.

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6 Logs: Found it 4  Didn't find it 2  

Found it 09/23/2018 By Bonanzaman49
This is by far, the tiniest container ever! Could not sign the "log"....a eensey weensey , strip of paper perhaps 1/4" wide....next time we bring a fine tip sharpie & a magnifying
glass!! TFTC....interesting little town!

Found it 08/18/2018 By $rustyjones$
Out with audeidian on International Geocaching Day. Back on 01/16/2014 with Magpiex5 took a look for the cache, before we looked to long a nearby home owner showed us the old Rockvale Bakery at his house. Very interesting cache location with the cords showing 3 feet, just stuck up in a good little spot. SL. TFTC.

Found it 08/18/2018 By audheidian
It is quite small but found it in about 10 minutes. Its there! Interesting history. SL. TFTC!

Didn't find it 06/01/2018 By Daytona08
It wasn't there

Found it 09/29/2017 By shotgunrider
It's there and seems to be in great shape. Thanks. Great little spot.

Didn't find it 09/19/2017 By Sydneymswart13
Would love to find this and leave something for the new memorial. Going to try again tomorrow