From Historical Marker EA-5:
Mountain Road was originally an Indian trail. It became the main
thoroughfare from Richmond to Charlottesville in the 1700s. During
the American Revolution, the Marquis de Lafayette traveled this
road on his march to Yorktown. Thomas Jefferson used it on his
trips to Richmond and Williamsburg. During the Civil War, on 11 May
1864, Maj. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan encountered Confederate
skirmishers as his men destroyed the Richmond, Fredericksburg, and
Potomac Railroad tracks here at Glen Allen. Sheridan and Brig. Gen.
George A. Custer then rode south into the Battle of Yellow
Tavern.
There is plenty of interesting history along this road. This
Whereigo cartridge/geocache is intended to share several locations
along Mountain Road in what is hoped is an interesting manner.
For more information about the historical markers along US33 -
much of which is Mountain Road, visit
VA Historical Markers along US33
For more information about the historical markers in the Glen Allen
area, visit
VA Historical Markers for zipcode 23060
Start at the posted coordinates for this geocache then start
your Wherigo cartridge. All markers are within sight of Mountain
Road except the last marker which is not far from the parking
coordinates posted with this geocache.
You must complete the cartridge in order to obtain the
coordinates and visit the physical cache location. You must also
sign the physical log in order to log a find on this geocache.
Completion of an emulation session of the cartridge is not
sufficient.
As this is my first of hopefully many WIG (Wherigo) cartridges,
please offer feedback on how to make it better experience. Thank
you for playing.
This is a cursed cache for all First to Finder's out there. If you
are the FTF for a cache in this series, you are cursed with the
obligatation to place another "The Curse of the FTF" cache and
therefore extending the series.
This concept is in play up in Fredericksburg, and they have a
strong series running; let's keep our's to the south to avoid any
confusion.
Guidelines for this series are below:
1. FTF'er should place the next cache in the series (The Curse
of the FTF #) within 2 months.
Other wise the curse will prevent you from ever getting another FTF
again!!! HA HA!!
2. You can only be a FTF for this series once. This spreads the FTF
love around, and gives others a chance to play along.
3. Cache can be any type of cache (Puzzle, Multi, etc.).
4. You must include this set of guidelines in your listing for the
series, and include the list of all who have been cursed before
you.
Those Who have been cursed so far:
1. SailorRory & the Winch Wenches (08/30/07) -- curse lifted
09/29/07
2. PerrinGrim (09/30/07) -- curse lifted 10/30/07
3. Cheermonkey (10/30/07) -- curse lifted 10/30/07
4. Sea_Sky&Land (11/01/07) -- curse lifted 11/17/07
5. DeepSeaGoddess (11/18/07) -- curse lifted 12/02/07
6. Inertial (02/05/07) -- curse lifted 02/09/08
7. DeepSeaDiver (02/10/08) -- curse lifted 02/23/08
8. Zippy Crusty & Splatkid (02/24/08) -- curse lifted
03/09/08
9. BuddyAndThe7Seekers (03/10/08) -- curse lifted 03/22/08
10. Wanderin' O'Bryens (03/23/08) -- curse lifted 05/20/08
11. va griz (05/22/08) -- curse lifted 05/29/08
12. dancingangel13 (05/30/08) -- curse lifted 06/24/08
13. CaverRick (06/25/08) -- curse lifted 8/1/08
14. Tadpole48 (08/04/08) -- curse lifted 09/29/08
15. JasonAndCarol (9/30/08) -- curse lifted 11/18/08
16. icefrog (11/20/08) -- curse lifted 11/22/08
17. BAG Squad (11/22/08) -- curse lifted 12/2/08
18. Code_Zero (12/4/08) -- curse lifted 12/12/08
19. GeoCatGirl (12/18/08) -- curse lifted 12/30/08
20. b3nd3r (01/04/09) -- curse lifted 03/01/09
21. huggy_d1 (03/01/09) -- curse lifted 03/15/10
22. huggy_d1 (03/16/10) -- curse lifted 03/16/10
23. huggy_d1 (03/16/10) -- curse lifted 03/17/10
24. huggy_d1 (03/17/10) -- curse lifted 03/17/10
25. huggy_d1 (03/17/10) -- curse lifted 03/17/10
26. huggy_d1 (03/17/10) -- curse lifted 03/17/10
27. huggy_d1 (03/18/10) -- curse lifted 03/22/10
28. huggy_d1 (03/23/10) -- curse lifted 03/23/10
29. huggy_d1 (03/15/10) -- curse lifted ???
30. huggy_d1 (03/15/10) -- curse lifted ???
31. huggy_d1 (03/15/10) -- curse lifted ???
32. huggy_d1 (03/15/10) -- curse lifted ???
33. huggy_d1 (03/15/10) -- curse lifted ???
You may notice I have been cursed for 12 months, so I will make
up for essentially cursing everyone else (by not placing one
sooner) by placing a cache for each month I held up this FTF
series. For those who seek these, you may want to hold off a few
days after you get your FTF before placing your cache to give me
time to get my cursed caches placed and published. ENJOY!