The Ghost Road Traditional Cache
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Medium sized container with log, pen and trade goods.
The Old Highway To Macon #9
This cache is just inside the tree line adjacent to the last remnants of the Old Highway in Muscogee County. The portion to the west of Layfield Road is slowly returning to the land as multiple seasons of fall foliage cover its surface and trees gain a roothold in between its concrete segments. The portion the east now serves as a part of the private drive for a hunt club but is also slowly going back to the land. Here the Old Highway is a ghost of what it once was.
In the early 20th Century the easy way to transport people and freight between Columbus Ga. and Macon Ga. was by train. The road network that existed between the two cities was a patchwork of county roads - constructed of dirt, gravel and macadam - intended for local traffic within the farming communities along the way. Driving the roads from Columbus To Macon was arduous under the best of circumstances! During the Great Depression the Works Progress Administration (WPA) was created to put the large masses of unemployed men to work on public works projects. This Highway between Columbus and Macon was one of those projects. It was a concrete surfaced two-lane road with concrete bridges. In an age when most trucks had only six wheels and there were far fewer cars, this new highway truly opened safe and comfortable travel between the cities. Over the years, as trucks got much bigger and the number of cars grew exponentially, the Macon Highway slowly disappeared as new and better roads were built to replace it. Now most of the original Macon Highway is gone. Segments of it still exist in Muscogee County, now serving as Chattsworth Rd. and Upatoi Lane. Upatoi Lane is still concrete just as it was when it was a part of the most modern of roads. This series of caches is placed to honor this road. Come ride the old road and remember a time before our car culture existed.
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