Jesse Knight – Owen Creek Traditional Cache
Jesse Knight – Owen Creek
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One of a series of six related historic caches.
Jesse Knight was a cattle rancher and Methodist preacher in the Manatee and Sarasota County areas in the mid to late 1800s. Although his primary occupation was cattle ranching he also spent a great deal of time riding a circuit through Manatee and Sarasota Counties preaching at several designated locations. One of these locations was Owen Creek.
No one really knows exactly where he preached at Owen Creek but it was apparently at someone’s house in that general area. Owen Creek empties into the Myakka River just north east of this location. When an area was first being settled services were often held in the home of one of the local settlers until the community could raise enough money to build a church. Services were also often held in arbors constructed for that purpose. There were no walls, just posts that held up a palm thatched roof.
This cache is one of eight in this series and can be approached from two different directions. One is through Crane Park off State Route 70 and the other is from Bradenton-Arcadia road which runs behind the park and is the old trail that Jesse would have used. The old road now ends at the abutment for the old bridge that no longer exists.
The other caches in this series are:
GC227K3 - Jesse Knight – Pine Level
GC227KD - Jesse Knight – Nokomis Cemetery
GC227KA - Jesse Knight – Grace United Methodist
GC227K5 - Jesse Knight - Venice-Nokomis UMC
GCXAY2 - Miakka Memorial
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(Decrypt)
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