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Huge moss-draped live oaks, sweet gums, hickory trees and stately pines cast their protective shade over the road, with limbs that meet in a towering canopy to provide cooling shade for the roads beneath them. Tallahassee has a long history of protecting trees, going back to the 1843 fire that destroyed the downtown area. When the fire was put out, the citizens made two decisions: to rebuild the buildings using brick and to plant more trees. As of March 2012, Tallahassee has nine canopy roads that provide a unique contribution to the city's southern charm.
There is a cache hidden in this series on each of the City's nine designated canopy roads and all nine are hidden in the same fashion. This cache is dedicated to the latest road to be designated (in 2007) as a Tallahssee Canopy Road - Pisgah Church.
Pisgah Church Road is a county maintained road 1.2 miles long in northeastern Leon County flanked entirely by a paved bicycle/pedestrian trail. At the eastern end of the road is the Pisgah United Methodist Church established in a log structure in 1830. The current building was erected in 1858, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Pisgah Church Road was used to access a little Missionary settlement known as Centerville, which was established in 1822 just west of the current intersection of Pisgah Church Road and Bradfordville Road. During the Seminole Wars in 1839 a patrol station at Centerville was very active in protecting white settlers from raids by Native Americans. By 1848, Centerville had a post office, dry goods store, and a stable.