All Seeing Cache Traditional Geocache
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This is an easy cache and dash located just off Interstate 64. It's a small smoked lock container. This cache has a fantastic view of Charlottesville and the Blue Ridge Mountains.
There is a paved exercise path all around this area. It is nice walk that is wheelchair accessible and great for little ones. NO LARGE ROCKS NEED TO BE MOVED TO FIND THIS CACHE. Peter Jefferson Place is part of a tract of land that was given by Crown Grant in 1734 to the father of explorer William Clark of the famed Lewis & Clark Expedition. In 1746, Peter Jefferson, the father of Thomas Jefferson, acquired the land and added it to his estate Shadwell (just east of here). Thomas Jefferson inherited the land in 1756 and named the farm Pantops (meaning "all seeing") because of its perspective on the village of Charlottesville and the Blue Ridge Mountains. Mr. Jefferson intended to give the property to Maria, his youngest daughter, when she married John W. Eppes. Jefferson hoped that his daughter would settle on Pantops and started to have a house site cleared. Following Maria Jefferson Eppes' death in 1804 though, the property passed to Maria’s son, Francis Eppes. In 1812, Eppes offered Pantops for sale and Jefferson, upset with the idea of land within view of Monticello being sold out of the family, offered to buy the property back. Finally in 1817, Pantops was sold to Thomas Jefferson Randolph, Thomas Jefferson’s grandson by his other daughter Martha (note: Martha Jefferson Hospital now stands near this sight). In 1825, the property was sold to James Leitch of Richmond who built the first house here. From 1879 – 1903, The Pantops Academy school for boys operated on Pantops. The house that remains on the property is thought to be located on the site originally leveled by Jefferson. Today, the property is owned the University of Virginia and houses The Thomas Jefferson Center for Protection of Free Speech and the Kluge-Ruhe Art Museum.
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