The Old Grade Letterbox Hybrid Letterbox Hybrid
Hidden : 11/13/2011
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

This letterbox hybrid is located in Cypress Creek Natural
Area along the Old Indiantown Road Grade (now known as the Historic
Jupiter-Indiantown Trail).

Please do not remove the stamp and inkpad from the
cache.

Historic Jupiter-Indiantown Trail is an old road used from the
turn of the century to the late 1950s for travel between Jupiter
and Indiantown.

From 1900 until the late 1950s, the Jupiter Indiantown Road
connected the communities of Jupiter and Indiantown, giving
residents access to resources. Dade County governed the area in
1899, when the new road was cut. In Indiantown about that time,
brothers Joe and Dessie Bowers developed citrus groves and ran a
trading post exchanging goods for hides with the Seminoles.
Transportation of goods on the 16-mile road took two days by
oxcart. The road was improved in 1912 using mules to haul shell
rock from Jupiter. Around 1916 the St. Lucie Canal intersected the
road near Indiantown. A hand winched ferry provided cross passage
until a one-lane turning bridge was built in 1927. Homesteads,
cattle ranches, and later the Davis and Jenkins sawmill were
established along the road. Also known as the Jupiter Grade Road,
the Jupiter Okeechobee Road and the Central Dixie Highway, in 1936
it became State Road 29. By the late 1950s nearby paved highways
replaced the historic dirt road. In 1993 the road was declared a
Scenic By-Way by Martin and Palm Beach Counties.
(Information above from the Florida Historical Markers Programs website.)

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