Tees Tavern Traditional Cache
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One of the Historic Waynesboro series of geocaches, inspired by the book "Images of America: Waynesboro" (Arcadia Publishing, 2009). This is located on public property. Take care because the Waynesboro Fire Department frequently uses this location. A high traffic area; watch for muggles. Congrats to HuntingYorks for being the FTF! NOTE: When replacing log, roll with orange tab on the inside (DON'T roll from bottom of log up. THX!)
This geocache is in close proximity to where Tees Tavern (the small 18th century "ordinary" around which the town of Waynesboro grew up) is believed to have been located. Background information on Tees Tavern: In 1739, Joseph Tees bought a 465-acre tract of land on the western side of the Blue Ridge Mountains near the trail that connected Rockfish Gap with Beverley’s Mill Place (now Staunton.) He purchased additional adjacent tracts until his death in 1755. Tees bequeathed the land to his sons, William and Charles. William and his wife Mary built a cabin on their land and when widowed, she converted the cabin into a tavern. The settlement that grew around it was called “Teesville,” and later, Waynesboro. In 1782 the Marquis de Chastellux, who fought in the Yorktown campaign of 1781, visited “Widow Tees’ Tavern” on the recommendation of Thomas Jefferson, who lived on the eastern side of the Blue Ridge at Monticello. The location while not exactly known, was “200 paces from the ford” of the South River, according to the Marquis. The Marquis and his men stayed a single night, and he wrote afterward of his visit that Tees Tavern was one of "the worst in all America." We Waynesboroans embrace that unique declaration as part of our heritage! :)
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