Fun With Station Names.

[+Spoo]

I was reviewing my records and found that I have recovered three "colors" so far:

 

GREEN (Green Mountain)

PINK (Probably short for Pinkham, a common name here abouts)

HAZEL (the first name of the woman then owning the property)

 

One I have yet to go look for is on top of a mountain named Old Blue. For some reason though, it is named SCRUB.

 

Anyone else recover some interesting names?

Edited September 14, 2004 by Spoo

[2oldfarts (the rockhounders)]

Oh Boy, have we found some interesting names...

 

Antelope, Beehive (4), Buckskin, Cactus, Curves, Don, Dot, Dyke, Easy, Fall, DNF-Game-but looked, Highway-RM, Holes, Kanab, Lowery, Len, Lito, Lope, Manson-another DNF, Marble Canyon, Mesa, Mollie's Nipple, Moapa, Mormon Mesa, Naviska, Pant, Pierce, Powell, Promontory, Red, Rose, Ruin (Yes, in Indian ruins on a mesa), Riordan,

Sand, Scenic, Seismology, Shinarump, Springs, Telephone, Tie, Vah Ki, Wahweap, Wall, Weather, White, Woody-another DNF and we found a Section '8'.

 

Whew, Thank you for making us remember some really interesting ones!

 

Shirley & John

[+GEO*Trailblazer 1]

Well maybe I should start my story again using benchmarks/caches.

Some are logable and some not.

 

BM'S ARE UNDERLINED NOT LINKED.

All but 1 MONEY has been recovered by me.

 

In 1492(BM 1492 FRONT YARD BLM) Columbus skinned his rump,on a bump,and sailed the ocean blue.

 

He discovered the New World,at or near Plymouth,(PLYMOUTH NATIONAL MONUMENT) BM LW4604,CACHE GCA651.

Now we know the PILGRIMtold the INDIANHow to grow CORN

but one day in the FIELD a POLECAT chased em off and they lost the (GOBBLER). for the Thanksgiving meal.

 

Miles Standish our first military leader (MY3979)Fortified the Bay at Plymouth MA.

After the New country was founded and the 13 Original Colonies grew,Thomas Jefferson and other Scientists of the day moved the Measuring Meridian the Washington D.C. ,Meridian Mile 0 (HV1846) (9HV1847) to GREENWITCH MERIDIAN.

 

Then the Louisiana Purchase 0f 1803.The Louisiana Purchase Monument (EH2910)

AND THE LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION (these are just being added to the data base NGS)

 

I still do not have enough MONEY NOT RECOVERED YET.

to just jump in the (TRUCK) and hunt them all.

But as soon as I can get some I will be off to get some more.I got many many more to complete the story and a few more to go after that.

 

So you could say this is the NEVERENDING BENCHMARK STORY.

I am suppose to write a story for TODAYS CACHER but have not got the adequite BM's yet.

 

Need more names.NEED MORE MARKS.......................AND MONEY

[+Colorado Papa]

LOST, FOUND and DEAD.

Oops, sorry, Spoo. Haven't recovered these, yet.

Edited September 15, 2004 by Colorado Papa

[ArtMan]

Benchmark hunting is enough to drive you INSANE.

 

For example, HV4675 (INSANE) and HV4674 (INSANE ECC) in Washington, DC - plus local marks DC6382 (INSANE RM 1) AND DC6383 (INSANE RM 2) - all at St. Elizabeth's, the famed D.C. hospital.

 

Enough to make you thirsty? I recommend trying HV7108 (BEER) in Ann Arundel County, MD, which unfortunately was reported destroyed in 1957.

 

~ArtMan

[Z15]

BUMBLETOWN MIGS 1934

[+PFF]

I've discussed FUNERAL and SNAFU in previous posts, so this time I'll nominate KRISPY.

 

To locate this mark without using a GPS, look for a sign in downtown Raleigh which says, "Hot Donuts Now!"

 

-Paul-

[+GEO*Trailblazer 1]

Well we can go up COFFEE CREEK AND DUNK

The KRISPY KREMER.

[mloser]

I know this came up before, but my cool names are OYES and ONO. ONO is at a small town of the same name, and OYES is a few miles down the road and may be based on the name of a restaurant in Ono named the O' Yes Hotel.

I also found Pepsi 2 but have no idea why it is named that. I don't think there is a Pepsi bottling plant nearby and the mark was at a motel.

[foxtrot_xray]

The only one interesting one I've come across is 'KENESAW RESET'. It's funny because the Mountain and nearby town are named "Kennesaw". So when I found it and DIDN'T have the PID, It took me FOREVER to find it 'cuz it was misspeld. (Or they ran out of letters and purposefully left out an 'N')

 

Me.

[2oldfarts (the rockhounders)]

We found an interesting one yesterday, Power. The disk's name & it's location is what makes this picture so interesting.

 

 

[+GEO*Trailblazer 1]

Well now me and TIGGR had the urge to get out and

SEYMOUR

We thought we would get over being

BLUE

By hearing PA's fiddle (Little House on the Prarie)played today at the Little House in Mansfield Mo.

MANS

WAS THAT FUN!!!

We got to travel by the 1924 Farmers Exchange

HD0277 V 6

We also found a CHISLED SQUARE

and found a little PEACE AZ we had fun for the day.

I wish I would have had the metal detector and something to dig with maybe I could have found STATION peace

[foxtrot_xray]

Funny, I just came across another interesting situation...

 

TWO benchmarks in Colorado, both named LAST: #1, #2.

One named LAST CHANCE.

 

All three are nowhere near each other (>100 miles apart). The first LAST is nowhere near anything that shares its name. The second LAST is three miles from a town, named "Last Chance".

 

The LAST CHANCE mark is nowhere near anything else names 'Last' or 'Last Chance'...

 

Me.

[mikeh420]

An interesting BM name is "Sister Elsie" EW7207, it's on the highest peak within Los Angeles City limits, Mount Lukens. Nearby is cache "Up On Sister Elsie's Antenna Farm" GCH9KG. not sure why they called it Sister Elsie. Here are some interesting facts about the "Sister":

 

http://angeles.sierraclub.org/hps/signatures/09e.htm

Edited October 16, 2004 by mikeh420

[+BilboB]

I just recovered "BRAINDEAD" (AB4455) in E. Braintree, VT a few days ago!

[+Colorado Papa]

Can you tell me if I'm NOW HERE or NO WHERE?

[mrh - terre haute]

Stop by this one when you're thirsty:

 

Bacardi

[+GEO*Trailblazer 1]

Well we might as well drink some,cause we aint gonna make no FORTUNE

Doing this.

[+bthomas]

ALIEN

Not in Roswell or Area 51, just monumented at the top of a cement silo at the Port, Redwood City, CA.

[+Harry Dolphin]

I'll offer my mostly strangely named benchmark so far:

KU2138 False

Harry

[+PFF]

I'd love the know the story behind FALSE!

 

There's a mark our team swears we MUST put on our list. It is named DEAD DOG. We assume we should approach from upwind. (grin).

 

It's on NC-22, just a few miles south of the community of CLIMAX.

 

-Paul-

Raleigh, NC

[+GEO*Trailblazer 1]

Well since it almost Thanksgiving.

 

PILGRIM

 

And the INDIAN

got together for the First one.

 

They found a GOBBLER

 

ON the way back the ran across a POLECAT

 

Well you can smell the rest of the story!!

Edited November 16, 2004 by GEO*Trailblazer 1

[+PFF]

mloser wrote:

I also found Pepsi 2 but have no idea why it is named that. I don't think there is a Pepsi bottling plant nearby and the mark was at a motel.

 

My theory is that there was a Pepsi billboard close to the Lakes Motel when the original mark was set in 1960. The soft drink company was heavily into outdoor advertising during that time frame. (In North Carolina, we have a mark where a ref tag was on the Pepsi billboard support post.)

 

An alternate theory is that a member of the crew was thirsty and it was too much trouble to return to Frystown for something to drink. Therefore, a beverage may have been purchased from the motel vending machine. If that is the situation, I salute their excellent taste in soft drinks!

 

-Paul-

 

PEPSI--Born in the Carolinas!

[+Jabba]

I have run across a couple of interesting names also. I wish I knew more about the reason for some of the names.

 

hedgpeth RM 1 and apparently the other room? hedgpeth rm 2 all must have been named for this view, but where is the room Hedgpeth

 

I have also found Mud, Sears, Barbs, Ransom, and a friendly Welcome which is right in the middle of downtown Holly Springs, NC. I have also found the Sunset mark, which was not very pretty. And I know that it is not very old, but my oldest mark was simply called R 54 but it was in a beautiful spot near the Nantahala river. A friend of mine spotted it while we were walking the train tracks back from the hardest terrain rated Geocache I have ever done, Lost Caves of the Middle Sun which is a 3.5 difficulty and a 4.5 terrain. As soon as my new metal detector gets here I will be back on a Benchmark Kick again. Its been a while since I searched for them, thanks for the thread.

 

Jabba

[Markonthedot]

I recovered "TABLE" once. all i need to find is bench!

[+Harry Dolphin]

I also located Wild Wild Though it was buried in the mud.

And Life

in the Wallkill National Wildlife Refuge. Life seems to have been paved over, and is now a bold in the road. I'm not about to dig up asphalt to find out.