Melton's Bluff Traditional Cache
neoncacher: Substandard cache, in the bottom 99 percent. Does not deserve to be around any more. I apologize to the entire caching community for my faux pas, won't happen again, that I assure you.
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I was making my way along the back roads between caches when I spotted a historical marker. Andrew Jackson was here. Now there's a cache nearby to get you off the beaten path.
Melton's Bluff was named for John Melton, an Irishman who married a Cherokee Indian girl and settled among the Cherokees.
In her "Letters From Alabama", Anne Newport Royall told of her stay in Melton's Bluff in January of 1818.
"...with the assistance of the Indians, he (John Melton) used to rob the boats which passed down the river, and murder the crews. By these means he became immensely rich; owned a great number of slaves; most of whom he robbed from these boats."
According to Royall, the bluffs at Melton's Bluff were:
"the highest I have ever seen. Here is a very large plantation ... worked by about sixty slaves owned by General Andrew Jackson ... No language can convey an idea of the beauties of Melton's Bluff. It is said to be the handsomest spot in the world, off the seaboard; and rich as it is beautiful."
(ca 1818) Laid out by General Andrew Jackson and John Coffey, located Meltons Bluff on the TN River. Acting first seat of Lawrence County until first court house at Moulton completed. Lots were sold extensively (and expensively) at one time. Before becoming President, Jackson owned a second home/plantation at Melton's Bluff on Tennessee River near Town Creek in North Alabama. He sold this house at Marathon just prior to taking office as President. Only remains are old roadbeds in the area, occasionly old bricks and pieces of scrap metal.
Even ol' Davy Crockett is said to have kilt a bear while hunting for food on the river to Muscle Shoals and Melton's Bluff.
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