Long Point Plantation Traditional Cache
Bolling: Cache will be relisted as a puzzle cache with slightly different location. Thanks to all who found this one.
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Located in Mt. Pleasant at Dorothy B. Kearns park. Park has nice nature trails (no playground). Cache is a large Lock-n-Lock container. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO REACH THIS CACHE FROM I-526.
I had originally planned for this cache to be the bonus cache for the Mt. Pleasant History Series, but since that series never panned out, I decided to go ahead and place this as a Traditional Cache.
The cache is located in one of the "hidden gems" of Mt. Pleasant. I say that because I've had a Terracache here for a year and none of the locals who found it knew this park existed and all seem to have enjoyed it.
Some history: The Long Point Plantation was built sometime between 1719 and 1763, but “comes of age” under the control of the Venning family during the nineteenth century. The plantation was originally obtained by James Allen in 1719 and the plantation house and structures were probably built either by James Allen or his son, James Allen, Jr., prior to 1763. The plantation was purchased by the Vennings, a prominent and wealthy Christ Church Parish clan, in 1800 and was held by that family until 1899. The plantation, which is believed to have contained a small cluster of structures located within the parameters of this site, was economically oriented, through time, toward livestock, cotton, and finally subsistence crops. One small, brick structure is still standing at the site. Listed in the National Register March 20, 1986.
The one small, brick structure is near the cache. I had thought about making this a puzzle cache to be sure you visit the structure, but decided to let each geocacher explore on his/her own. I encourage you to walk the trails before/after finding the cache instead of making this a park and grab.
There is lots of poison ivy in the area, but since I placed this cache in the summer, I was able to avoid the heavy growths.
FTF -- JohnnyDingo
APRIL 2010 UPDATE: Apparently, there is another cache nearby with many shark teeth. This is NOT the cache you are looking for.
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