Wipe your SLATE clean Traditional Cache
LMMC: Looks like the bushes were removed in the area.
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Cache is small container size of film container just unscrew body
from the lid. Plenty of parking... BYOP CONGATS!!!!!! MntnRnnr for
FTF!!!!!!!
Sprawled over the rough, wooded hills on both sides of Hunt Creek
in the eastern part of Buckingham County, down in Old Virginia, is
the slate quarry "settlement" of Arvonia, the site of what is said
to be the finest slate region in America. Far back in the early
days of Buckingham history, two Englishmen, Edmond Sims and Robert
Chatman, first noticed the slate formation of the ridges and bluffs
around them. They put their slaves to work digging deep pits in the
slaty rocks, (for that was long before the War Between the States),
and they took from the sides of the pits great blocks of the stone.
Then they used "Niggerhead" rocks (
http://www.wurlington-bros.com/Museum/Faces/labels/NHead.html ) to
break the blocks to a size small enough to be carried on the
shoulder. But there was no large quarry opened until M. E. Jones
and Hugh Hughes of Carnavonshire, North Wales, came to Virginia.
These men opened the first quarry of any size. Many Welshmen from
the Northern States, then came to Buckingham to work in this
quarry, and the one opened by two other Welshmen, John J. Roberts
and J. E. Edwards. Quarrymen from Wales then began to come over to
share in the enterprise. Soon the settlement grew to a size where a
name was necessary, and these Welsh emigrants, homesick no doubt
for the slaty hills of their own homeland, called it "Arvon" after
Carnavonshire in Wales. Later the place was called Arvonia, but the
railroad station is still "Arvon."
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