Pigeons with Spirits Multi-Cache
Clay Pigeons: Can't keep the 1st stage in place.
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This is a short tour of Trussville. With only a 2 stage cache, I thought I would take you to a couple of "old" spots.
Native Americans fished and hunted along the Cahaba's banks long before the white man settled in North America.
But with the surrender of Creek land in 1814, white settlers flowed into Alabama to build homes by its rivers and use the bounty of its fields and forests. Among them was Warren Truss, a North Carolinian. Truss settled in the area sometime before 1820, acquiring 1,000 acres of land and building a mill on the Cahaba. Soon the nearby settlement became know as "Truss".
For several decades, Trussville was a rural, rather isolated community, and farming was the major occupation. Although the tiny hamlet sent a contingent of officers and men to fight for the Confederacy, the Civil War directly touched Trussville only toward the end of the conflict. According to Trussville Through the Years, by Carol and Earl Massey, Union Gen. John T. Croxton led a raiding party to Trussville early in 1865 to burn the Confederate storehouse. They succeeded, but the people of Trussville put out the fire and salvaged much of the burned grain and flour.
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Ybbx gb evtug bs Qbpgbe Wbua
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