Larwood Covered Bridge Traditional Geocache
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The cache is not actually on the covered bridge. You can park at Larwood Wayside and walk a very short distance to the cache. There is a picnic area, fishing, swimming and a restroom. Large camo'd pill bottle with room for small items and trackables. Bring your own pen. FTF PRIZE is my first pathtag creation…enjoy. CONGRATS to Shotputter99 for the FTF. Sounds like the race was on!
The Larwood community was named for William Larwood, who settled on the banks of Crabtree Creek and Roaring River in 1888. He platted the little town, built a store and blacksmith shop, and operated a post office from 1893 to 1903. A prior covered bridge was built about this time over Crabtree Creek, and for a while, covered bridges spanned Roaring River and Crabtree Creek just a few feet apart. The town and old covered bridges are gone, but the rebuilt water powered mill and the present covered bridge are reminders of the area's previous activities. A little way up the road is the Roaring River Fish Hatchery. For a bit of fun feeding the fish you can pay a quarter for fish food. Roaring River, which empties into Crabtree Creek near the bridge, is the only river to flow into a creek, an oddity in U. S. geography that was featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not.
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