The Overmountain Men Multi-Cache
Manville Possum: Missing.
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Cache is located in Natural Tunnel State Park, in Scott County, Virginia.
This cache has been approved and placed in the Park by permission.
Coordinates are to a monument, use the 28th word and convert the letters to numbers 0-6 for the coordinates to the final stage of the cache and log.
N36 TA.ACT + 10
W082 TT.RCH - 16
The Overmountain Men were American frontiersmen from west of the Appalachian Mountains who took part in the American Revolutionary War. While they were present at multiple engagements in the war's Southern Campaign, they are best known for their role in the American victory at the Battle of Kings Mountain in 1780. The term "overmountain" refers to the fact that their settlements were west of, or "over," the Appalachians, the range being the primary geographical boundary dividing the 13 American colonies from the western frontier. The Overmountain Men hailed from parts of Virginia, North Carolina, and what is now Tennessee.
The efforts of the Overmountain Men helped to solidify the existence of the fragile settlements in the Watauga, Nolichucky, and Holston river valleys, the legitimacy of which had been questioned for several years. Many Overmountain Men, including John Sevier and Isaac Shelby, went on to play prominent roles in the establishment of the states of Tennessee and Kentucky. In the late 1760s and early 1770s, Euro-American settlers began pouring into what is now northeastern Tennessee and southwestern Virginia, causing considerable agitation among the Cherokee and other tribes who controlled the area. The Treaty of Lochaber, signed in 1770 between the British and the Cherokee, moved the boundary of British territory south to Long Island of the Holston (modern Kingsport, Tennessee). While this brought settlements north of the Holston under British protection, the settlers south of the river were ordered to leave.
Rather than comply with the Crown's order, the illegal settlers— mostly concentrated at the Watauga settlement (at modern Elizabethton), the Nolichucky settlement (near modern Greeneville), and Carter's Valley (near modern Kingsport)— decided to lease their land from the Cherokee, and in 1772 established the Watauga Association, which was the first independent American constitutional government west of the Appalachians. In 1775, the Watauga and Nolichucky settlers purchased their leased lands outright. The Crown and colonial governments considered the purchase illegal, however, and continuously ordered the settlers to leave the Cherokee lands. The Cherokee also again became agitated when these settlements began expanding rapidly, and tribal chiefs amiable to the settlers fell out of favor. The young Cherokee chief Dragging Canoe, who had been opposed to the sale of tribal lands, called for the violent removal of all settlers west of the mountains. The foothold that the Overmoutain Men gained on the frontier helped open the door to mass westward migration in ensuing decades.
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Ebpx naq onfr bs gerr.
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