Star Camp Wayside Area Traditional Cache
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Take a break and rest in the out of the way & seldom used Star Camp Wayside Area. You will be looking for a plastic lock-n-lock type container with a log and a pen. There are plenty of places to park and picnic while you geocache in the area.
The former Star Lime Works community which was the site of a thriving lime industry that began some time before the Civil War. The community survived through changes in lime works ownership and many economic fluctuations in the production of lime and limestone, until it was disbanded sometime after 1945 due to construction of the Kentucky Lake Reservoir.
Louis Vougal came from Brussels, Belgium, and spoke French, German, and English. He bought a farm Between-the-Rivers on which he planted 90 acres of orchard. He later started a lime quarry on this farm from which he shipped lime to Paducah, Nashville, Memphis, and other places. The Star Lime Works community grew up around it.
With the urgency to construct the Kentucky Dam with the onset of war, TVA experts declared that the quality of the stone on the Vogel land was of such low quality that it was of no value, and because the land had been quarried it was of no use as even farmland. Despites the Vogel's family efforts to prevent the forfeiture, they "sold" the quarry to TVA at an "unreasonable" price. TVA constructed railroad tracks from the dam site to the Vogel land and quarried, by all estimates, several million dollars worth of stone to construct Kentucky Dam. The Vogel family left the area after Louis Vogel died of a heart attack, which the family and community members always believed was the result of his treatment by TVA.
With a short time allowed, families not only had to find a place to relocate, but they had to construct homes, barns, and fences and relocate livestock, equipment and other rudiments of traditional farming life. In the midst of the resulting chaos, some cemeteries were moved in time; others remain below the waters of Kentucky Lake. Schools and churches—the centers of community life—were forced to move or were disbanded altogether. The most productive crop ground became a lake bottom. Even those whose houses were beyond the lake level for the project found that their ability to make a living was greatly affected. Long established community structure was obliterated. The Star Lime Work community was eventually covered by water from the Kentucky Dam and abandoned.
The 5.47 miles of trails within the Hillman Ferry Campground woods are listed as a Heritage National Recreation Trail. The trail system often follows old historic roads used by the former Star Lime Works community. The Star Lime Works is being recorded as a historic district and the remaining cultural features, landscape, and history are just beginning to be portrayed through interpretive stops along the trail. Current interpretive stops are along Bohanon Loop and Vogle Loop.
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