Forked Deer (South Fork) Traditional Cache
dalls: Thanks to everyone that hunted this one.
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This cache is located near the Forked Deer River. Finding the right parking spot will make this cache pretty simple.
This river played a major part in forming Jackson, TN. Here's a little history lesson.
Twenty years after Tennessee statehood, the Chickasaws signed the 1816 treaty that secured the area for settlement. The first farm families came to Madison County in 1819 and settled east of Jackson in Cotton Gin Grove. In the following year, additional pioneers settled further west on the banks of the Forked Deer River in a community they named Alexandria. In 1822, Alexandria changed its name to Jackson in honor of Andrew Jackson. Jackson's sister-in-law Jane Hayes lived in the city, and the General played an important role in the early history of Madison County.
Jackson became the county seat in September 1822, after the Tennessee General Assembly created Madison County in November 1821. In 1835 Congressman Davy Crockett made an angry speech on the courthouse steps, following his defeat for reelection, in which he told the people of Jackson: "The rest of you can go to hell, for I am going to Texas." A year later he and another Jackson resident, Micajah Autry, were dead at the Alamo. In the antebellum period, Jackson became a transportation center for agricultural products on the Forked Deer River.
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