Geo-Geology ... Watauga River Traditional Cache
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Geo-Geology ... Watauga River
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You are seeking a medium size container that is off trail of the V.C. community park. You will need to bring a pen.
Geo-geology is a series of caches in the Watauga Area that designed to educate local cachers on how to correctly identify certain geological features.
The Watauga River, 60 mi (97 km) long, originates on the slopes of Grandfather Mountain in Watauga County, North Carolina, a mountainous area in western North Carolina and eventually flows across the Tennessee state line at Johnson County and later downstream flows into Carter County and then Washington County, Tennessee.
The word "Watauga" comes from the Cherokee, who had several towns so named, including one at present-day Elizabethton, which itself became known as "Watauga Old Fields", which were first explored by Daniel Boone and James Robertson in 1759. A larger Cherokee town called Watauga was located on the Little Tennessee River near Franklin, North Carolina. The Cherokee word is more accurately written Watagi. Other common spellings include Watoda, Wattoogee, and Whatoga [Mooney, James. "Myths of the Cherokee". (1900, reprint Dover: New York, 1995)]. A North Carolina State University web page (The Watauga Medal) cites that the word "Watauga" is a Native-American word meaning "the land beyond",[2] however local reference to the name origin is attributed to the meaning "beautiful river" or "beautiful water".
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