The Devil's Racepath Traditional Cache
Manville Possum: Archived.
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The Devils Racepath is a section of the Daniel Boone Wilderness Trail so named because of robbers/thiefs that were in the area robbing and stealing from the pioneers heading west to Kentucky.
This part of the trail is near Little Flat Lick (present day Duffield) just past the mouth of Troublesome Creek at the Clinch River crossing (Speers Ferry). The orginal trail that Boone and his axemen cleared took a longer route up the Stock Creek passage at the present town of Clinchport, which was later named because it was a port for Flatboats travling along the Clinch River. The trail continued along Stock Creek to Horton's Summit, then across Powell's Mountain in Kane Gap to the headwaters of Wallen's Creek. Elisha Wallen was the person that led a group of the early Long Hunters along a trace used by the Native Americans to the Gap in the Cumberlands. Wallen is said to be the person that told Boone of this trail when he was living in the Yadkin Valley of present North Carolina, and the abundance of game that could be found here. This mountain pass had been used for thousands of years as a trade and war route by the Natives, and was known to them as Athawominee, or the path of the armed ones.
Cache is a medium size container with a log sheet and room for geocoins, pathtags, and small travel bugs or SWAG.
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(Decrypt)
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