The Bacon Ate Her Traditional Cache
Gone Caching-Selah: I attempted to contact the cachers who agreed to maintain this cache but thry no longer play. Too far from me.
-
Difficulty:
-
-
Terrain:
-
Size: 
(micro)
Please note Use of geocaching.com services is subject to the terms and conditions
in our disclaimer.
P&G...mostly. NOT in bushes/shrubbery so please leave the beautiful landscaping alone. This beautiful house contains City Hall and there is a jaw-dropping tree across the street. Business Hours preferred (M-F, 8-5); you may hunt outside of those hours at your own risk of meeting up with the boys in blue. The people who work there know the cache is present, so search unhindered...and then go in and say "Hi" to the friendly folks inside.
Mooove over, everybody: Team RedCow earned FTF on this cache. Congrats!
The City of Baconton, the birthplace of the paper-shell pecan industry in Georgia, is located in Mitchell County a little south of Albany. Today, the world's leader in pecan harvesting and processing equipment makes its home here. Baconton had a population of 915 as of the 2010 census. City Hall, where the cache is located, is in a restored 1898, two-story Victorian home built by George W Jackson. He, his wife, and their nine children lived there. You may request a tour of the building if you are so inclined.
Why this cache? My daughter's infatuation with bacon. Bacon & peanut butter? (ugh!)
When I was previewing a delivery route I was to take, I saw the name of this town and immediately knew I had to put a cache here. I'm glad I did. I ended up spending about an hour here just soaking up small (tiny?) town America and I encourage you to do the same. If you time it right February-April, the Baconton Blazers will be playing a baseball game at their nearby field: They were Region 1A-West Champions in 2007 and 2013!
How did this town acquire its name? It seems that there was a little girl named Wendy who loved to get out of her bed at the most inopportune moments. One night her father, Mr Thomas, told her to stay in the bed "or else", turned on the radio to a scary show, turned out the light, and left the room. "The Mystery Hour" began broadcasting shortly thereafter and 5-year-old Wendy started listening intently to the evening's story about a huge hamburger with lots of bacon on it.
The tension mounted as she heard about the bacon burger heading north on US 19, terrorizing towns in its path and wreaking destruction. Instead of people eating it, IT was eating people! Thomasville... Pelham... Camilla. Wendy knew it was only a matter of time before the barbaric burger would be at her home. Disregarding her father's order, she crawled out of the bed and hid as best as she could.
That was in 1927. Wendy was never seen again. Kids of the 1930s and 1940s believed the house to be haunted with her ghost. When asked about the mysterious circumstances surrounding his daughter's disappearance Mr Thomas could only reply, "I guess the bacon ate her."
The townspeople memorialized the occasion by naming the town after the infamous burger. Decades later his great- great-grandson Dave invented a burger in her honor, The Baconator.
My apologies to Bill Cosby for this aberration of his original story, "The Chicken Heart that Ate New York City". The town was really named after Major Robert Bacon in 1869 by railroad engineers who put a train station on the land he had donated to the railroad company.
Since I live so far away, SoWeGa Cachers (specifically TeamAtlas) has agreed to look after the cache if it needs maintenance (thanks!).
Oh, and did I mention PLEASE stay out of the bushes/shrubbery.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Pbeare