Welcome to Lone Oak Letterbox Hybrid
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You will be looking for a small lock-n-lock box containing a log, pen, stamp and ink pad. There is room for trackables.
Letterbox Hybrids
This cache type pays homage to an older form of scavenger hunt. The container for a Letterbox Hybrid include a stamp, which stays with the geocache and may be used by letter-boxers to stamp their personal letter-boxing book. The cache can be logged without using the stamp.
Clues to Finding the Letterbox...
Near the place a carpet is clean
A lone oak thus lean
Upon a trunk your cache rest
Now begins your test
To find where the log's camp
And find a Lone Oak stamp.
PLEASE leave the stamp and stamp pad in the geocache container for others to use.
A Brief History of Lone Oak
The community that would become Lone Oak first sprung up around a grist mill built by W.T. Pepper in the late 1870's. The mill was near the present-day intersection of Potter (Lone Oak) Road and Lovelaceville Road. In 1899, D.M. (Doc) Potts, owner of the first store in Pepper's Mill, applied for a post office. That name could not be used, so a post office was approved for "Lone Oak," hastily named for a massive stubby landmark not far from the mill site.
Since its beginnings, Lone Oak became a bussling suburb of Paducah. Many families and businesses have come to call the community home. Lone Oak was first incorporated as a city in 1979. The city had a total area of 0.2 square miles of land. According to the 2000 census, there were 454 people, 220 households, and 128 families residing in the city. On November 4, 2008, the citizens of Lone Oak voted 75–64 to dissolve the city and allow it to be absorbed by McCracken County. In 2013, Lone Oak High School closed its doors after 54 years of educating the community which will always be referred to as...
LONE OAK
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