Stop by the Kyle Chamber, N 29° 59.331’, W 97° 52.716’, to pick up your GeoTour Passport. We are open M-F 8am-5pm. You can also download a copy of the passport and print it out yourself. The first 250 people who achieve 25 points are eligible to receive a trackable GeoCoin.
Thank you to razorbackgirl for your help with this GeoTour!
PLEASE DO NOT LIFT, TWIST, TURN, OPEN, SHUT OR CLIMB ANYTHING. THIS CACHE CAN BE FOUND USING ONLY YOUR EYES.
An excerpt from “Kyle, The Prairie City”
October 1880…“The surreys and wagons came swaying to a halt near the double line of iron runners which was the brand-new International & Great Northern Railroad. The ladies had packed wicker basket with fried chicken, deviled eggs, potato salad, and the usual cakes, pies, and home-baked bread. The children and grandchildren lurked near the baskets, thinking more of the picnic which would climax the celebration than the thought of the coming of the train. Mammy, the guardian-angel servant of the Haupt family has no greater wish for the day that to see that train come in and stop. While gazing down the track, her young charge got away, joining the group of boys who swarmed onto the tracks and got down on their hands and knees, listening to the rails to hear the distant train. Mammy picked him up by the seat of his pants and took him squirming back to the tongue of one of the parked wagons. She gave the boy a good tongue lashing. She was half asleep when she heard the hooting whistle at last. That monstrous train came on roughly, shrilly. At the last minute Mammy had the impression that is was not going to stop. Like a raging bull it bellowed and moved swiftly, unheeding. It could not see the crowd of families waiting to welcome it. Without stopping to think, Mammy ran out to head off that raging bull. She stepped on the track, waving her starched, white apron, determined not to let the train go past. Men from the crowd pulled her back and spared her from serious injury. She wasn’t even scolded. The crowd was too greatly excited, too enthusiastic about the arrival, at last, of the train which would serve to bring this section of Central Texas out of its isolation and connect it with the world.”
