GCAD0C Virtual Cache Douglas #14 Catholic Church
Type: Virtual | Size: Virtual Virtual | Difficulty: 1 out of 5 | Terrain: 1 out of 5
By: Jim Reeb @ | Hide Date: 11/24/2002 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N39° 22.325 W104° 51.663 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 76

This is number 14 in a series of historical points within Douglas County Colorado.

In the spring of 1860, the bishop of Leavenworth, Kansas, came to Denver to establish the Catholic Church. In the ensuing years, Douglas County Catholics met in homes and received sacraments from selected Franciscan friars.

In 1887, the Very Reverend J. B. Machebeuf visited Castle Rock to inspect the site for the new church and was quite pleased with the work that had been done. The church was used until the new church was built in 1966 and was then vacant until 1975 when it was remodeled and no longer a church.

Well, not quite vacant. Even today the ghost of a little girl, dressed in white, may be seen.

To claim this geocache email the current name of the building.
Photos are fine. JimReeb@ecentral.com

Thanks Geocaching Colorado for the Geocache of the Month Award, as the second series to win!

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25 Logs: Found it 25  

Found it 07/06/2019 By DaCachingNana
Cool spot!! Thanks for bringing me here!!

Found it 07/06/2019 By Georodders
Visiting family in town. After we ate down the street, they told us about this place. Maybe next time we’ll eat here. Answers sent. TFTC

Found it 07/04/2019 By GhostlyImage
What a wonderful, historic VC. Answer has been sent to the CO with our thanks. We love virtuals! This is our first ever cache in Douglas County!

Found it 06/23/2019 By PitaPocket13
Visiting from New Jersey.

Thanks for the cache.

Found it 06/22/2019 By Lifeisagame..playit!
#1902 Found it! From SC...in Denver this weekend for a wedding. TFTC

Found it 10/20/2018 By Roaring_Fork
Thank you for brining is to this amazing building. Message sent.

Found it 10/18/2018 By Hypno_Hawk
Found this with tool king. He sent the email. Tftc

Found it 10/17/2018 By Tool King
Another cool old building. TFTC

Found it 10/12/2018 By geoguru1
Making a run of Castle Rock caches with my son MBCHendrickClan. Interesting use for old church.

Found it 10/12/2018 By mbchendrickclan
Found with Dad

Found it 09/06/2018 By The Retireds
We are on the way to Wyoming to attend Mrs. R.'s Aunt's memorial service (She was her last living Aunt and her favorite). We soooo love virtual caches as they usually take us to places we would not have gone otherwise. Also this one was an easy drive. Email to follow with the answer. TFTH.

Found it 09/04/2018 By Firemnky
On a Fall trip through Colorado doing some caching and seeing the sites. A beautiful scenic drive through Rocky Mountain National Park. Visiting the downtown areas of Boulder, Denver, Castle Rock and Colorado Springs to name a few. We enjoyed a beautiful hike on the Barr trail at the Summit of Pikes Peak. It was a wonderful trip with quite a bit of caching thrown in along the way. Unfortunately this was the last one in our Jim Reeb Virtual run. We had a great time. Answer sent.

Found it 09/04/2018 By Casper&Aero
Notre périple a débuté le 22 août dernier et nous amènera à visiter douze états Américains et deux provinces Canadiennes... Notre départ s'est fait à partir de Baie-Comeau, une ville sur la Côte Nord du Québec pour ensuite se poursuivre quelques jours à Québec où nous avons fait un peu de Géocaching.... Par la suite, nous avons fait un arrêt à St-Eustache et Ville de Laval, toujours au Québec, pour ensuite prendre l'avion et arriver à Portland, Oregon... Nous avons fait un arrêt le 28 août à Umatilla toujours en Oregon, le 29 août à Boise en Idaho, le 30 à Twin Falls et le 31 nous sommes à Salt Lake City pour deux jours... Le 2 septembre nous étions à Rock Springs, Wyoming et hier nous avons fait un arrêt à Laramie, Wyoming... Aujourd’hui nous continuons notre périple vers Colorado Spring où nous passerons deux jours...

Pendant tout le voyage nous avons ciblé quelques caches qui nous aideront à atteindre nos objectifs personnels et nous découvrirons certainement de nouveaux endroits que les Géocacheurs d'ici voudront nous faire découvrir... Nous préparons ce voyage depuis plusieurs mois et savons que nous ne pourrons pas tout voir par manque de temps... Il y a beaucoup de caches mais devons fermer les yeux ne pouvant toutes les trouver... Mais c'est avec plaisir que nous apposerons notre signature sur certaines d'entre-elles...

Merci pour la création de ces caches qui ajoutent des sourires à notre profil et qui nous font passer du bon temps peu importe l'humeur de Dame Nature... Notre log sera le même pour toute la journée et s'il y a une particularité nous l'ajouterons au début du texte... Des favoris seront ajoutés ici et là pour tout le travail accompli... MPLC

Casper&Aero de Baie-Comeau, Québec, Canada


Our English is not perfect, we use Google Translate to help us ...

Our journey began last August 22 and will take us to visit twelve US states and two Canadian provinces ... Our departure was from Baie-Comeau, a city on the North Shore of Quebec and then continue for a few days in Quebec City where we did some Geocaching .... Then we stopped at St-Eustache and Ville de Laval, still in Quebec, and then flew to Portland, Oregon... We made stop in Umatilla on August 28 still in Oregon, August 29 in Boise, Idaho, August 30 in Twin Falls and August 31st we are in Salt Lake City for two days... The 2nd of september we were in Rock Springs. Wyoming and yesterday the road brought us to Laramie, Wyoming... Today our trip will take us to Colorado Springs where we will stay for two days

Throughout the trip we have targeted some caches that will help us achieve our personal goals and we will certainly discover new places that Geocachers here will want us to discover ... We have been planning this trip for several months and know we will not be able to not all see for lack of time ... There are many caches but we must close our eyes can not find them all ... But it is with pleasure that we will put our signature on some of them ...

Thank you for creating these caches that add smiles to our profile and make us have a good time regardless of the mood of Mother Nature ... Our log will be the same for the whole day and if there is a particularity we will add it at the beginning of the text ... Favorites will be added here and there for all the work done ... TFTC

Casper&Aero from Baie-Comeau, Quebec, Canada

Found it 09/01/2018 By FresnoDancingFool
Nice simple virtual; my answer will follow shortly. Good job and TFTC!

Found it 08/27/2018 By qrang
A quick find here many thanks answers sent to CO

Found it 08/19/2018 By mcmwest
We are on our last long weekend caching trip before school starts next week. We are finishing our Wyoming Counties Challenge this trip.
GCAD0C

Found it 08/19/2018 By mcmm1
Scieppi’s

Found it 08/11/2018 By TRUROKR
Kremser and I drove in from Colorado Springs to visit a friend and as we were leaving we checked to see if there were any interesting caches nearby. This one fit the bill perfectly! We enjoyed the history, and it was great to see that it is still standing! Thanks for the destination!

Found it 08/05/2018 By prerules
TFTC

Found it 07/21/2018 By AJperla
TFTC WITH TC

Found it 07/21/2018 By tc54915
Caching trip with AJ Perla out west to grab counties and old ones. Hoping to fill my triple jasmer this trip...Tftc.

Found it 07/21/2018 By intrepiidexplorer
Tftc :)

Found it 07/20/2018 By WindAtMyBack
Found with@intrepiidexplorer TFTC

Found it 07/20/2018 By JSQuack
Another fun find in the Douglas County Virtual series this evening after a long day of discovering the area.

TFTC! Smile

Found it 07/20/2018 By CShare
We stopped by this Virtual after our event nearby tonight. Interesting what has happened to this church. Answers are sent in an email for JSQUack and myself. TFTVC