Stuckey Pottery Traditional Cache
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quick park and grab very visible
Growing up here this was, and still is my Great Uncle's farm, actually nearly this whole valley is owned by relation of mine, Anyway there is a lot of history in this area from Woods School & Cemetary (how the sign is spelled) to the King Soloman Mines just up the road. Just to the East of this cache on the hill side I am told was the location of a Stuckey pottery, Today it's cow pasture, but remnants of pottery can still be found in the ditches and streams even today. Being as I'm from the area I love sharing the history.
•Clay pottery in Shoals/Loogootee: About the same time period as the famous Rookwood Pottery was made in Ohio. Upton Stuckey realized the clay from the hills of his farm could be molded and finished by firing. Ovens were built, and the venture later became the first pottery in Martin County, and perhaps one of the very first in the state of Indiana. Containers by Stuckey had a blue and blue-green glaze design that resembles a bird. Devol and Catterson operated two pottery kilns at Shoals and made 92,000 gallons of common stoneware annually, from 1870-1892. The land in and around Shoals and Loogootee was ideal for pottery, and probably still is. John H. Folks made stoneware, flower pots, etc. from a bed of light gray potters’ clay located on the Joseph Cannon farm beginning in 1878. The stratum of potter’s clay used by Mr. Folks is nearly five feet thick and underlies a vein of coal. The area is extant with a variety of yellow-loess potter’s clays and shale and is ideal for this industry.
The area your visiting is part of the West Boggs spillway, and is a flood plane, if there is water over the road do not attempt this cache.
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