Walnut Grove Traditional Cache
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NOTE!! To access this geocache, park on north block of Northgate. We don't recommend taking toddlers on this; there's a wide shoulder but much traffic on road. Take a pen. One of the Historic Waynesboro series of caches, inspired by the book "Images of America: Waynesboro" (Arcadia Publishing, 2009). Take time to read the Historical Marker. Walk to bridge to see Pratt's Run. Pretend to or take real photos. Note circa 1810 home. Use stealth! Congrats to HuntingYorks for FTF!
Walnut Grove is one of the four oldest homes in Waynesboro. It was built around 1810 by Archibald Stuart on a tract land his grandfather, also named Archibald Stuart, had purchased adjacent to Joseph Tees’ property in 1751.
Walnut Grove was situated beside a main trail called “Greenville Road,” which is the present day Route 340. The younger Archibald Stuart was born at Walnut Grove in 1757 and became a Revolutionary War solider and later a judge. Stuart descendents lived at Walnut Grove into the middle of the 19th century, using the land to raise stock animals. Architect and artist William A. Pratt bought the property in 1868. He lived there until his death in 1879. The property remained in Pratt family hands until William Pratt’s grandson, Julian Pratt, died in 1940. The house is now most often referred to as the “Pratt House.” The stream of water that runs across the south side of the property is called “Pratt’s Run.”
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