Stump Hole Cache Redux Traditional Cache
Hidden : 1/7/2013
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:

Just could not allow this one to not be in place. The family stories are too rich to forget. Now magnetic

The maternal roots to my family tree were cultivated in Princeton, also known as Boon Hill or Boone Hill. As a reference for these caches I have utilized, “My Town, Princeton, North Carolina, A Book About Princeton People” authored by my Great Uncle, William A. Norris. I have used his words to describe a series of caches by which you are invited to explore this town.

Princeton was “laid out” in 1854 as a train stop for the Southern Railroad line. Population in the 1930 census was 500, today the population is about 1,146 within the town limits.

Some of my ancestors used stump-hole (homemade) whiskey quite liberally, taking their bottles or fruit jars along when they went to town. Due to their healthy respect for the law in Princeton, they would stop and hide their drinking liquor in the near by woods. Having taken care of their business in town, they invariably retrieved their bottles on the way back home to quench their thirsts.

There just might be some 50 plus year old stump-hole setting behind a pine within this area due to folks forgetting exactly which pine was the hiding place.

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