Courting around 16 - Smith County Mystery Cache
Courting around 16 - Smith County
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Continuing the series of courthouse caches initiated by Ridgerunner 02
From Wikipedia :
The earliest known Euro-American settler in what is now Carthage was William Walton (1760-1816), who arrived in the late 1780s. Around 1800, Walton directed the construction of the Walton Road (Cumberland Turnpike), an early stage coach route connecting the Knoxville area with Middle Tennessee. The road, which roughly paralleled what is now US-70, would prove influential in the early settlement of the Cumberland region. Walton operated a ferry and tavern along the road, around which a small community developed. In 1804, Walton's community was chosen as the county seat of the newly-formed Smith County after a heated election, and the town of Carthage was laid out shortly thereafter.
Carthage's situation at the confluence of the Cumberland and Caney Fork rivers made it an important shipping and steamboat port throughout the first half of the 19th-century. The emergence of railroads later in the century, however, made steamboat and river travel largely obsolete, and the area's industrial focus shifted to South Carthage and Gordonsville
Smith County courthouse was built in 1877
. Carthage is the county seat of Smith County and perhaps best-known as the hometown of former Vice President Al Gore, and his father, Senator Albert Gore, Sr. The younger Gore announced his 1988 and 2000 presidential bids, as well as his 1992 vice-presidential bid, from the steps of the Smith County Courthouse.
[Notable residents
? Jeff Bennett — Relief pitcher of the Atlanta Braves; attended Gordonsville High School
? Albert Gore, Sr. — U.S. Senator
? Albert Gore, Jr. — U.S. Senator and Vice President
? Simon Pollard Hughes, Jr. — Governor of Arkansas, 1885-1889
? Cordell Hull — U.S. Secretary of State; practiced law in Carthage
? Brandon Maggart — actor
? George McCorkle — founding member of the Marshall Tucker Band
? Benton McMillin — Governor of Tennessee, 1899-1903
? Ron Meredith — President/Owner WYSH TV & Radio
THE CACHE:
It is not located at the published coordinates but the published coordinates will get you to a group of three Historic Markers placed by the Tennessee Historical commission. You will need information from these markers to solve the puzzle which will reveal the cache location. The cache is a bison tube with only a log.
Coordinates:
N36 A.0B
W085 C.1D
A = The number of years that Captain Walton lived after he built his road
B = Waltons age in years multiplied by two at the time that he built his road
C = Mc Millins age halfway into his second term
D = Captain Waltons age when he died
Additional Hints
(No hints available.)
Treasures
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