Where Are All The Marshes in Marshville? Traditional Cache
Where Are All The Marshes in Marshville?
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You are looking for a small tin, magnetized, painted, and filled with log and swag, near the west entrance to the decidedly dry and land-locked town of Marshville.
"Marshville, Home of Randy Travis and Country Living" as the sign says. However, the name 'Marshville' brings to mind soggy lands with reeds, swamps, and tidal pools.
What Gives??
According to a brief article in The State magazine (Vol. 24, No. 14, December 1956),
"When the Central Carolina Railroad was completed in 1867, a Union County railroad station was designated "Beaver Dam, N.C." because of the many beaver dams on the multiple creeks nearby.
As the town grew, the station agent shortened his work by writing on freight bills only "B. Dam, N.C." That didn't read so well and only sounded worse.
So in 1895, the Rev. M.C. Arrowood, a Presbyterian minister, petitioned the legislature to honor the prominant local Marsh family by changing the name of the town of Marshville"
(at the far eastern end of main street, you can still find the Beaver Dam Masonic Lodge and the Beaver Dam Car Wash, still remnants of that old name)
Additional Hints
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Treasures
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