Kawahcatawbas Traditional Cache
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I located this one near a favorite fishing spot. It *was* a large lock n lock filled with goodies hidden in a traditional way. After the 100 year flood this area received in 2013, I replaced the missing container with a smaller one.
What’s in a name? Let’s start with Catawba. New comers may think they live on a lake, but they actually live in a drowned river valley. The river once carried a noble name. In the Indian’s language it was known as Eswa Taroa, the Great River. They called themselves the Kawahcatawbas, meaning People of the River. The river become known as the Catawba. Today several thousand descendants of the Catawba tribe live in and around their 640-acre reservation near Rock Hill, S.C.
And yes, they still consider themselves to be Catawba, the People of the River.
The Catawba River is a tributary of the Wateree River in the U.S. states of North Carolina and South Carolina. The river is approximately 220 miles long. It rises in the Appalachian Mountains and drains into Piedmont, and is impounded through a series of reservoirs for flood control and hydroelectricity. It flows ENE, forming, along with the Linville River, Lake James. It then passes north of Morganton, then southeast through the Lake Norman reservoir. From Lake Norman it flows south, passing west of Charlotte, then flowing through the Mountain Island Lake and Lake Wylie reservoirs, where it forms approximately 10 miles of the border between North Carolina and South Carolina. It flows into northern South Carolina, passing Rock Hill, then through Fishing Creek Reservoir near Great Falls, and then into the Lake Wateree reservoir, approximately 30 miles northeast of Columbia. At the now-submerged confluence with Wateree Creek, it becomes the Wateree River.
Congratulations (again) to five0xpres - FTF
Additional Hints
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V nz gur qnex gur yvtug lbh'er fbhy,
Fxrgpu lbhefrys n yvsr,
Naq svyy gur tncvat ubyr,
Ohmmvat ubyybj gerr,
Cynag nabgure frrq,
Fbba gurl jvyy or serr,
Qlvat unccl oerrq,
Onavfurq sebz gur ynaq,
Gur gerr ba juvpu V fng,
V gbbx gur urycvat unaq,
Gur gerr naq gung jnf gung.
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