GC173RA Amy Grant C(r)ached Here (Traditional Cache) in Tennessee, United States created by 2daybehappy

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GC173RA ▼

A cache by 2daybehappy Message this owner

Hidden : 11/1/2007

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Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:

This cache may prove to be muggle free most times of the day. I believe that you will be able to sit down and take your time to browse the cache for a trinket of your liking to exchange. Cooks will enjoy a copy of my favorite recipe. Kids will enjoy items as well.

To save you from mucking up the traffic along Hillsboro, please park in Burton Hills. To save the landscaping, please stay on the sidewalk. Please remove the cache by grasping the lid while leaving the receptacle in place.

Welcome to Burton Hills! Here is a history of the Amy Grant connection:

Singer Amy Grant's great-grandfather bought the pre-Civil War farm of about 450 acres in 1929 for a reported $90,000, using it for horse breeding and even raising foxhounds to hunt. In 1961 son A.M. Burton deeded about one half of what was then known as "Seven Hills" to the current Lipscomb University. Lipscomb sold the property to developers in the early 1980s for what was estimated at the time to be $12 million to enrich its endowment.

Grant has fond memories of the Burton family farm where she visited as a child.
"We were just excited that they named it Burton Hills because we grew up riding horses and our whole family had a street on the back of the farm that my great-grandparents gave us," she told biographer Bob Millard. "It was all cousins. It was fun."

The nationally recognized vocalist was 5 when her great-grandfather, Andrew Mizell Burton (known by his middle name to the family), died in 1966 at age 87. But her great-grandmother, Lillie May Armstrong Burton, continued to live on the farm. Lillie Burton died in 1981. The main house, with its six white columns, dated to about 1829. It survived the Civil War attack by federal troops on nearby Shy's Hill as part of the Battle of Nashville. A bullet from the war reportedly was lodged in the staircase. The original two-story Burton home wasn't demolished but was moved in September 1984 to make way for the development. Its destination was a Dickson County bluff 50 miles away between Charlotte and Dickson.

By 1985, the first of the development's office buildings was under construction. Today Burton Hills also includes hundreds of residences, from condominiums to premium single-family homes.

These excerpts are from the Nashville Tennessean story by George Zepp (05/02/07)
For complete story and photos go to: (visit link)

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

ybbx bhg naq qbja

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)