Crestview's Two Hills Traditional Cache

This is the sixth cache in the Okaloosa Heritage Geotrail.

Earn a commemorative prize coin (while supplies last) for completing 6 of the 8 caches; log books contain questions that must be answered on a passport. You can get a copy of the passport at http://tinyurl.com/zrtawm3

The cache is not on any of the nearby electrical equipment, There is no need to search on the equipment.

For your convenience, here's the list of all of the caches on this trail
1. GC4KQJ7 - City Hall
2. GC4KQWD - Mary Esther Library
3. GC4KQWD - That View
4. GC4KQWD - Valparaiso Library
5. GC4KQWD - Niceville Public Library
6. GC4KQWD - Crestview's Two Hills
7. GC4KQWD - Baker
8. GC4KQWD - County Seat

In 2013, Florida reached a significant milestone, the 500th anniversary of Juan Ponce de León's arrival on Florida's east coast. What makes this anniversary so unique is that Ponce de León's convoy of explorers was the first group of Europeans to document such a landing and give a name to Florida, La Florida. 2013 marks 500 years of history and diverse cultural heritage in Florida – a claim no other state in America can make.

Crestview was largely an outgrowth of the coming of railroad service to the west Panhandle of Florida. The Pensacola and Atlantic Railroad Company, chartered in 1881, opened its line between Pensacola and Apalachicola in January 1883. Soon two express passenger trains, the Atlantic Express and the Gulf Express, and a local accommodation train that stopped everywhere, were in daily operation. The expresses took about six hours to make the run, the local, thirteen hours. When the railroad company was unable to cover the interest owed bondholders, the Louisville and Nashville Railroad covered the shortfalls until 1885, and then foreclosed, merging the route into their system as the L & N's Pensacola and Atlantic Division.

In 1894, sawmill operator W. B. Wright opened the 26-mile (42 km) Yellow River Railroad between Crestview and Florala, Alabama via Auburn, Campton, and Laurel Hill. The L & N supplied the line with freight cars, and in 1906, purchased the operation, as the Yellow River Branch. This line, without any major shippers on it to make it profitable, was used for freight car storage for a time in the early 1980s and then was abandoned with 25.3 miles of the route lifted after May 1985, although the right of way still exists, with some portions paved as local streets.

The City of Crestview received its charter from the Florida Legislature and was officially incorporated in 1916. Crestview's name was chosen because it is located on the peak of a long woodland range between the Yellow and Shoal rivers, which flow almost parallel on the east and west side of the city. After Okaloosa County was formed by the State Legislature in 1915, from portions of western Walton County and eastern Santa Rosa County, Crestview became the County Seat in 1917 and remains so today.

There is a small park nearby dedicated to the longest surviving Florida Civil War Veteran who died in September of 1957 at the age of 109 though there is some controversy on his actual birth date. The park was dedicated in his name in 1958.

You are looking for a small container that can hold a couple of very small items. BRING A PEN! Please replace the cache as found to allow others to enjoy the search too.