York Community Park Traditional Geocache
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This cache is located in the York Community Park in York Montana. There could be quite a few muggles around so stealth may be required. Please bring a scribblin' stick. A little history about the York Area; The York-Confederate Gulch area has been called one of the three most important Montana placer districts. York Gulch is next in importance to Confederate Gulch as a producer of placer gold in the region. Gold was discovered there in 1864 and placer mining began the same year. Gold was discovered in Big Rattlesnake and Kingsberry Gulches ca. 1865. By 1866 placer ground along Trout and York creeks had attracted hundreds to the diggings. The town of New York (now called York) was established at the intersection of Trout Creek and York Gulch in 1867. It quickly grew to become the second largest town in the area (Bassett and Magee 1869; Malone and Roeder 1988; Mertie et al. 1951; Sommer 1991). The York district is located along the southwest slopes of the Big Belt Mountains in the Trout Creek drainage about twenty miles northeast of Helena. The area is rugged and is cut by several gulches, including York Gulch, Gennian Gulch, Kingsberry Gulch and Big Rattlesnake Gulch. In several areas the gulches are narrow, steep-sided gorges, most notably in the upper York and Big Rattlesnake Gulch areas, along Trout Creek west of these gulches and in Kelly Gulch west of Trout Creek. Altitude in the area ranges from 4000 feet at the head of Trout Creek to 6000 feet at several of the Kingsberry Gulch mines (Sommer 1991). Gold in York Gulch was mined from the mouth of the gulch upstream to Rattlesnake Gulch. The pay streak in York Gulch between Kingsberry Gulch and Trout Creek ranged from 50 to 150 feet in width, with gravels as deep as 40 feet in some places. The gold was often found at or near the bedrock level in many of these areas.
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