Burn the mill down! Cache Traditional Geocache
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Burn the mill down! Cache
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Please do not burn anything! I was pretending to be Judah P. Benjamin.
Easy cache in match safe. BYOP(Bring Your Own Pen)
Please put the container back the way you found it.
Possible CITO site, so bring a baggy too. This was my first cache I have placed and I had fun doing it.
HYER-KNOWLES PLANING MILL
The Chimney is the only trace of what was the first major industrial belt on the Gulf Coast, a string of antebellum wood mills and brick factories. The chimney represents the lumber industry of the Florida Panhandle. As the lumber industry prospered in the 1850’s, local mills employed 600 people and produced almost 55 million feet of lumber. The bricks in the base of the chimney bear the mark “J. Gonzalez”, showing that they were produced at the local brick plant of James Gonzalez. The chimney was part of the steam power plant for the Hyer-Knowles Mill. In March 1862, General Braxton Bragg was evacuating the Confederate forces holding Pensacola when Confederate Secretary of War Judah P. Benjamin gave the order to “Destroy all machinery private and public, which could be useful to the enemy: especially disable the sawmills in and around the Bay.” The machinery from the mills was loaded onto barges which were moved into Escambia Bay. On March 10th a thunderstorm and large waves sank the barges. That same night the Hyer-Knowles Mill was burned, and all that is left is the chimney.
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