1814 Cabin Traditional Cache
Hooty Who: Cache location has changed and cabin has been removed.
Thanks everyone for logging this cache.
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This is an easy cache to locate. Plenty of parking area and safe
from muggles. You might encounter the local law enforcement as they
like to set up radar here a couple times a month but this is
usually at night.
In 4 more years this cabin will be 200 years old! That is older
than West Virginia (20 June 1863) also Wetzel County (10 Jan 1846).
This area was Tyler County, Virginia then Wetzel formed from Tyler
in 1846 and was known as Wetzel County, Virginia for 17 years until
The Civil War. Some folks were born in Tyler Co., Va. and died in
Wetzel Co., WVA and never moved from their farms. In 1814, near the
point where a small stream emerges from a narrow wooded valley and
flows into the Ohio River, Abraham Haynes and his wife Susannah
found a spot for their new home. Abraham, who was born in Louden
County, Virginia in 1764 and Susannah, born in 1796 in New Jersey,
first met in Tyler County, Virginia (now West Virginia) and lived
for a time near the mouth of Big Fishing Creek in Wetzel County,
Virginia (WV), before building a small log house on the hillside
above a strip of rich river bottom land and the fresh waters of
what is now called Haynes Run. The little cabin still stands today
about a mile north of New Martinsville. This cache is placed within
200 yards of the 1814 cabin (look north) Cache will hold Geocoins
and very small Travel Bugs and should be a safe drop zone for these
items. Congratulations smithdk for the FTF
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