GC342W3 History Bluff - Quality Hill (Traditional Cache) in Missouri, United States created by hdnaqha

This cache has been archived.

Mongo: [b][u][red]ARCHIVING CACHE[/b][/u][/red]

No response from cache owner.

While I feel that Geocaching.com should hold the location for you and block other cachers from entering the area around this cache for a reasonable amount of time I don’t think we can do so any longer. Therefore, I have archived this cache. If you haven’t done so already, please pick up any remaining cache bits as soon as possible.

When repairs to this cache are completed, and it is time to have it listed once again it will be no problem as long as it still meets the guidelines. Just drop me a note( by email at Mongo@geocachingadmin.com) and let me know the GC waypoint number of the cache or better yet, the URL of the cache page. You will still be able to access your cache page just as before by going to your “My Cache Page” and clicking the link of your cache.

I want to thank you for the time that you have taken to contribute to geocaching in the past and I am looking forward to seeing your cache up and running in the future.

Thanks for your understanding,
Mongo
Groundspeak Reviewer

GC342W3 ▼

A cache by hdnaqha Message this owner

Hidden : 9/12/2011

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Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

Located in Quality Hill this is an easy park and grab with a great view.

History Bluff - Quality Hill

Quality Hill is a historic neighborhood near downtown Kansas City, Missouri, USA, situated on a 200-foot-high bluff which overlooks the confluence of the Kansas River and Missouri River in the West Bottoms below. Situated within fourteen blocks of the Missouri River itself, Quality Hill is the oldest established residential area in the Kansas City metropolitan area to remain continuously inhabited.

It is located on the west side of downtown, bounded by Broadway to the east, I-35 to the west, 7th Street to the north, and 14th Street to the south. The Kansas border is half a mile away through the West Bottoms. Since 1978, Quality Hill has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Lewis and Clark Expedition

On September 15, 1806, the Lewis and Clark Expedition stopped on what is now Quality Hill, on its return from the Pacific Ocean. Meriwether Lewis noted in his journal that the site offered a "commanding situation for a fort." Today, the site is commemorated by a large bronze sculpture, informational signposts, and a lookout point at the north end of Case Park, located at 8th Street and Jefferson Street.

Today

Since its initial refurbishment, Quality Hill once again has become a highly upscale urban neighborhood. It is widely regarded as one of the best successes in urban renewal in the United States. Quality Hill's attractiveness to potential inhabitants derives from both its historic beauty and its ready access to the cultural and business benefits of downtown Kansas City. Its architecture – both historic and new, echoing Kansas City's origins and in a similar architectural style to St. Louis's historic Soulard neighborhood – is mostly in a 19th-century French colonial style.

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Some items visible from this Quality Hill vantage point:

- Quality Hill - LINK
- Kaw Point (Lewis and Clark Expedition) - LINK
- West Bottoms (Central Industrial District) - LINK
- Kemper Arena (American Royal) - LINK
- Kansas City Stockyards - LINK
- Kansas City Live Stock Exchange Building - LINK
- Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport - LINK
- American Hereford Association - "Bob"- LINK
- HNTB Corporation Headquarters - LINK
- FBI Building (Kansas City Division) – LINK