Corn Traditional Cache
68TR250: Checked on it after a DNF. The hiding place has been destroyed. Time to go
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Sidney Lanier – is it the big lake North of Atlanta? Yes. Is it the big bridge near Savannah? Yes. Is it a county in South Georgia? Yes.
However before all of them there was Sidney Lanier the man. Born February 3, 1842 in Macon, GA, he was a noted poet, musician, lawyer, educator, husband and father. He graduated first in his class from Oglethorpe University. Lanier served in the civil war in the Confederate signal corps and was captured as a POW. He was incarcerated in the POW camp located at Point Lookout in Maryland. He survived his time at Point Lookout however nearly 4000 other prisoners died there. While there he contracted tuberculosis which he never fully recovered from. After the war he made his way to Alabama where he was educator. He returned to Macon and practiced law for several years in his father’s law office. Lanier traveled to the north east in an attempt to find employment as a musician. He landed a position as a flutist with Peabody Orchestra in Baltimore Md. He became first flutist and was known for ‘Black Birds’ a song where he mimicked the sounds of black birds. Lanier later became a student, then lecturer and finally a faculty member at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. Lanier was a prolific writer having penned several poems and essays and one novel. He accomplished all that before passing away in Lynn, NC at the age of 39 of complications on the tuberculosis.
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Corn is one of the many poems written by Lanier. He wrote Corn in 1875 while visiting his friend Captain John McIntosh Kell (1823 – 1900) who lived in Sunnyside, GA. This cache is a camo’d flare tube placed in a tree near the historical marker which honors the poem, Lanier and Kell.
Kell entered the United States Navy at the age of 17. When Georgia seceded from the Union, he was the first US Naval officer to offer his service to the Confederate Navy and became the Executive Officer of the Confederate cruisers "CSS Alabama" and “CSS Sumter." Kell also served in the Mexican War. 1853 saw Kell on Perry's expedition to Japan. After the Civil War, Kell served as Adjutant General of Georgia from 1887 until his death in 1900. Kell is buried in Oak Hill Cemetery in Griffin, GA. ( thank you for the info lukedr! )
Parking off the county roads near the cache site is nearby.
This is an easy park and grab after a short walk.
Be sure to look up some of the other neat caches nearby. Remember we are in the country down here – nearby means anything within 10 miles!
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Pbirerq ol angheny zngrevny naq thneqrq ol n sebt.
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