Denham's Spring Traditional Cache
gealbhan: Well, I wish whoever places a new cache here better luck than I had... maybe a smaller, harder-to-find container would do well!
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50 caliber ammo can filled with all kinds of goodies. Placed with the blessing of the owners of the nearest house. This area floods often, so the cache is attached to a nearby tree with a chain to prevent it from floating away... please do your best to conceal the cache AND the chain after you have found it.
Located in a beautiful area in Denham Springs. Be sure to check out what is still visible of the spring that the town is named for!
Description from a (now archived) cache in this same general location by Immortale35 and cfxcreative:
Ground-water springs which come to the surface at the base of the low- lying ridge which runs through the center of the city have figured in the city's name since at least the 1850's. The area has been known as Amite Springs, Hill's Springs, and Denham Springs. The original land claims of John Noblet and Alexander Hogue form what is now the older section of Denham Springs, including the first residential and business districts. In 1828, William Denham, a Wilkinson County, Miss. native, married Mercy Hogue, the daughter of Alexander Hogue, and three months later purchased the 640 acres originally claimed by his father-in-law. A popular belief, supported by previously published histories, is that William Denham discovered the mineral springs on his property and that a health resort quickly grew up there. This belief defies logic, however, con- sidering the number of springs which may be found in this area even today, and the length of time that elapsed before Denham arrived on the scene. No doubt Hogue and other early residents of the area depended on the springs for drinking water.
Honors go to amb5500c for FTF!!
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