Longhungry GeoCoin Hotel Traditional Cache
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From Coordinates +/- 20 feet due to canopy cover. North side, near red blazes. Avoid creating social trail.
Small lock-n-lock container with 3-D camo. Use for EXCHANGING or adding geo coins.
(EDITED 8/3/08: PLEASE TRADE EVEN, OR TRADE UP, or just sign the log and don't trade. Today I had to remove melted breath mints, non-geocache related business cards, and a 6" piece of weed-eater line from this cache, so if you trade, PLEASE trade with future Geocachers in mind.)
Not far from the entrance to the NC side of the Cherohala Skyway. Just inside USFS boundry and near, But NOT IN the cemetery. A fence serves as a boundy line. Some of my ancestors have been laid to rest in this area.
According to local historian, Marshall McClung, author of "Mountain People, Mountain Places' on page 103 of his book there are at least two different stories as to how Long hungry got its name plus a bit of a "ghost story" about the area.
“One is that some hunters were stranded there by high water until their food ran out and they were hungry a long time. Another story tells that the area got its name from a gold prospector who searched the area so long for gold his grubstake ran out. When he emerged from the woods gaunt and lean, he was asked how he was; his reply, “I’ve been a long time hungry.” There may be some factual basis to this version. A. W. Tucker, a consulting mining engineer, from Salisbury, NC did contract mineral research for the US Forest Service in Graham County in 1917. He reports finding evidence of gold mining in this area. He mentions finding gold mining at “the Old Carver Place”, thought to be the Long Hungry area as the carvers lived there.”
McClung also mentions in his book,”
“One of the earliest mentions of the white man living at Long Hungry is that of Andrew Colvard in the 1800’s. The Carvers were in this area at an early time also. W. M. “Dock” carver is credited with providing land for the Carver Cemetery and was in the area at least by the mid to late 1800’s.
It is about the Carver family that some of the early stories originated. Tom Lawson carver and his wife Mandy are buried in the lower section of Long Hungry Branch. He reportedly told family members not to sell or “bother” his land as he would return in the year 2000 to claim it. Did he return? Sometimes late at night, down by the lake, you can hear him pull his boat up out of the water and hear the chain he used to tie up the boat “just a clanking away.” In the vicinity of the grave, campers have said to have fled the area in terror in the middle of the night when they heard what sounded like a team of logging horses with their trace chains jingling bearing down upon them.”
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