Mount Airy (Wythe Cache #4 of 4) Traditional Cache
Mount Airy (Wythe Cache #4 of 4)
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Placed along Mount Airy road. You will have a commanding view of the I-81 Super Slab. Dead end road with room to turn at the cache or you can go to the end and make a circle. Don't try this cache from the interstare.
I didn't know this history untill I pulled over and read the sign. Why don't we take the time to do that more often?
Rural Retreat
The name Rural Retreat first appeared in Wythe County on a marriage return sent to the court by Lewis Sid Marshall, Minister of the Gospel, on April 28, 1827. This predates by six years the establishment of the Rural Retreat Post Office in 1833 when the same Lewis S. Marshall was named as the first postmaster. At this time, no town existed where the present Town of Rural Retreat is located. Following the custom of the day, the mail was delivered to the home of the postmaster who had the right to name the office. Marshall lived on the Great Road near the residence of Martha Brown DeBord, now deceased. When the railroad came to the western end of Wythe County in the mid-1850s, the depot at present Rural Retreat was named Mt. Airy, for the little town located on the Great Road (now US 11), established in 1811 by Valentine Staley. The town was sometimes referred to as Staleytown.
As the railroad town grew, the post office, named Rural Retreat, was moved to the Mt. Airy Depot, causing great confusion. In the aftermath of the destruction of the depot by the Federal troops, the name Rural Retreat was given to the new depot and the town in 1866, to coincide with the name of the post office. Stores, banks, hotels, churches, mills, shops, newspapers and telephones reached the town in due time and Rural Retreat was incorporated on July 24, 1911, and received a new charter in 1954. Mount Airy ceased to exist about 1875.
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The container is an empty gator aid jug with camo tape. It has a jar of bubble maker for the kids and a vintage 1989 set of unopened Teenage Mutant Ninja TURTLES trading cards along with other things. There is room for small TBs’ and other small swag after you get the bubbles out.
Congrads to Angles for being the FTF on this parallel to the Super Slab cache.
Happy Caching
EagleJ1970<><
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