Uncas, Uncas, and Uncas Traditional Cache
Hidden : 3/4/2010
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

Easy grab a cache, with a story. Very small size need to bring a pen or pencile with you to sign the log.

Uncas – Uncas – Uncas

I have lived in this area for over 20 years and seen the sign saying Uncas many many times. I have often wondered what does the word means, a person, a place, what?


This is what Wikipedia says of Uncas. Uncas (c. 1588 – c. 1683) was a sachem of the Mohegan who through his alliance with the English colonists in New England against other Indian tribes made the Mohegan the leading regional Indian tribe in lower Connecticut. A sachem is a chief and a member of the Mohican.
Remember the book “Last of the Mohicans”, well in 1907, William F. Cody laid a wreath on Uncas' monument as a commemoration to Uncas as the "Last of the Mohicans". Also James Fenimore Cooper's book The Last of the Mohicans had Chingachgook's son named Uncas.

Now here is information that makes the little road even more interesting. The road was once a few miles of the Olympic Scenic Highway that ran from Olympia to Port Angeles. As the new Hwy 101 was being completed 101 by-passed the country road Uncas and the area off of it went to sleep. Take the little drive, a loop off that starts and ends on Hwy 101, see the farms and views from this road. I am sure you will tell friends about it .

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Uncas and Miantonomoh.


Yup another big congrads to Woppawife and Bigawop for the first to find.

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