Capon Bridge's 1st Traditional Cache
Backwoods Reviewer: As the owner has not responded to my prior note, I am archiving this listing.
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Bring your pen! Be quick and use lots and lots of stealth as this is a busy little town with lots of eyes!
CAPON BRIDGE is a town located in eastern Hampshire County, West Virginia along the NORTHWESTERN TURNPIKE(U.S. Route 50), approximately twenty miles west of Winchester, Virginia. As of the 2000 census, the town population was 2,178[3], 200 of which live within the town limits.
Originally known as Glencoe, Capon Bridge was incorporated in 1902 by the Hampshire County Circuit Court. It is named because of the construction of the bridge over the Cacapon River at that place, the name of the river being derived from the Shawnee, "Cape-cape-de-hon", meaning "river of medicine water."
The NORTHWESTERN TURNPIKE is a historic road in Virginia (now West Virginia), important for being historically one of the major roads crossing the Appalachians, financed by the Virginia Board of Public Works in the 1830s. In modern times, west of Winchester, Virginia, US 50 follows the path of the Northwestern Turnpike into West Virginia, whose major Corridor D project follows the western section of the original Northwestern Turnpike.
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