K & K Pecan Tree *ARCHIVED 6-1-15* Traditional Cache
The Scout Master: I went by due to a DNF. Indeed the container is missing. Since I have had more than 1 comment about the area and muggles possibly thinking the cache might be a drug stash (even though the container was marked as a geocache and permission was granted for it) I have decided to go ahead and archive this one. Thanks to all who visited.
K & K Pecan Tree *ARCHIVED 6-1-15*
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Located on the private property with the permission of the manager of the business located there, this should be a relatively easy find.
First, a little history of the area:
According to an account in “Remembering Greenville, By Jeffrey R. Willis, The Greenville County Historical Society:
“Before there were the giant discount chains and buying clubs, there was Kash and Karry. This Greenville institutuion began in 1930 as a small grocery store on Mulberry Street operated by J.S. Myers... As the business prospered and expanded, it occupied part of the Ideal Laundry building and then moved to the 50,000 square foot store...at 913 Buncombe Street. Volume sales, no-frill displays, and no advertising added up to discount prices. Goods were sold out of the original shipping boxes stacked on the floor of the store. Twenty-five check-out stations and 224 employees expedited the shopping expeditions of hundreds of cunstomers.
Shortly after the conclusion of the Main Street Christmas parade on November 19, 1946, an explosion rocked downtown Greenville that many thought was an earthquake. A propane gas explosion completely destroyed the Ideal Laundry and 10 surrounding houses. The Kash and Karry grocery store was damaged as well as other nearby businesses. Some laundry workers were still in the building. Six were killed, and the injured numbered 126. Furman University historian A.V. Huff Jr. (writing in 1995), described the explosion as “the worst catastrophe in the history of the city of Greenville.”
WFBC Radiostation manager, Bevo Whitmire, lived on Buncombe Street. He ran to the station studio in the Poinsett Hotel to organize live coverage of the disaster. Whitmire, Norvan Duncan, and Jack Fulmer then raced to the scene. In the litter-strewn Kash and Karry store, Fulmer, the station engineer, found a telephone, hooked up to an amplifier, and Duncan went on the air to give Greenvillians a live account. The result was the most extraordinary broadcast in the history of Greenville radio.”
There is a very large pecan tree here. When the business now located there moved from its nearby location to its present-day site, they were informed that the old pecan tree would probably die due to the grading that was required for the site. The employees all said “no, that would be terrible..”.
Today, the old pecan tree is still alive and going strong, producing nuts every year. If you look closely when you search for the cache, you most likely will see some on the ground or in the tree.
You are searching for a large pill bottle(or course) with small items and a log. There is no pen so BYOP.
Please...Be VERY STEALTHY, muggles abound.
HAPPY CACHING!!!
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Additional Hints
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