Three Monkey's #3 - The Stacks Traditional Geocache
Three Monkey's #3 - The Stacks
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This cache is in a small ammo container and is packed with
something for everyone. The location is near an old powder plant.
From the road, look for the stacks.
Park in front of the gate (the land outside of the chain link
fence is public land so don't sweat, just go around the small
gate).
As you approach the stacks along the dirt trail, be please be vewy
vewy quiet, listen and look at the top of the first stack (you may
be treated to a sighting of something off the back of an old
quarter).
Look closely, we thought it was something stuck to the top of the
stack...til it flew to meet a friend!
This is not dangerous terrain, but kids should stay close to
parents and not venture off alone.
Happy Hunting... ***** The cache location has changed. It is near
open man holes. The cache is about 10 feet off of the ground now so
it may require a little climbing. Enjoy and Use Caution!
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Chickasaw Ordnance Works By Ed Frank
Mississippi Valley Collection Sometimes called the Memphis, or
Millington, Ordnance Plant, this huge explosives manufactory had
its origin in 1940, when the Anglo-French Purchasing Board formed
the Tennessee Powder Company to produce munitions for the Allied
war effort. After the French surrendered, the British assumed
control and contracted with E. I. DuPont de Nemours Company to
manage the construction and operation of the facility. The
six-thousand-acre site north of Memphis met the plant's needs for
land, labor, bulk transportation links, and access to an ample
supply of cotton linters, which were chemically treated to produce
"smokeless powder" (actually a high-explosive cake, or "guncotton")
for small arms and artillery, as well as TNT. The installation
required its own power plant, a separate spur from the main
Illinois Central Railway line, and new artesian wells that pumped
enough water (22 million gallons per day) to supply the city of
Memphis. U.S. Highway 51 was enlarged to a "four-lane super
roadway" from Memphis to the Tipton County line to accommodate the
workers' automobiles. Though some workers commuted by public bus,
the complex was a forerunner of the automobile culture that
burgeoned after the war. Construction began in June 1940 and
proceeded on a round-the-clock schedule with a peak workforce of
over nine thousand black and white workers. In early 1941 the plant
operated with fifteen hundred employees and shipped its first lots
of explosive. It set a world safety record by operating for 2
million (later 3.6 million) work hours without a major injury. From
November 1940 to May 1943 the plant maintained continuous night and
day operations for 871 days (except Christmas Day 1942). In May
1941 the U.S. government acquired the plant and later changed the
name from Tennessee Powder Works to Chickasaw Ordnance Works before
enlargement of the facility began. DuPont continued to manage the
plant for the U.S. Army; it received the first Army-Navy "E" award
given to a war plant in the Southeast, and received Es for four
successive six-month periods. By October 1944 the plant employed
more than eight thousand women and received an Army Ordnance safety
award. Its overall accident rate remained less than half that of
all other such plants. Ironically, after more than $50 million in
American and foreign investment, the award-winning plant was deemed
too dangerous for conversion to civilian uses after the army
deactivated it in mid-1946 and carefully dismantled it. />
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