Blaze on Bay Traditional Cache
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A quick but clever cache, that offers a neat history lesson on the largest fire to date in Beaufort County. **Excerpts of history obtained from articles in the Beaufort County Library Archives written via the Beaufort Gazette.
The most terrible and destructive fire that ever visited Beaufort made all stand aghast on Saturday January 19, 1907 by the fierceness of its fury and the demoniac like rapacity with which it caught up and destroyed valuable personal and real property. About 1:30 the alarm was sounded, and it was found that a building connected with and in the rear of the large grocery and general merchandise house of F. W. Scheper, which was located then on the corner of Bay and Carteret Street, was afire. The wind was blowing a gale that day, and it was soon found that the most heroic efforts of the firemen were unavailing to prevent the spread of the flames to the main store, three stories high, which was crowded with goods. Steam fire engines were brought to the city from the Naval Station at Port Royal and from Savannah, GA by barge to join in the battle. While the firemen were fighting the fire with all the power they could, the flames spread northward along the west side of Carteret Street, burning the fire engine house and hall and two residences. Over 40 buildings of one kind or another were destroyed. When night came and the flames were somewhat subdued, most of the young men, who were firemen, donned their military clothing and went on guard to protect the ruined district from the pilfering of the noncombatants. The origin of the fire was traced to three small boys who were smoking in a stable located to the rear of the store. These boys were questioned, admitted that they had been smoking, and had probably thrown a lighted match into some hay that was stored in the stable. Not one of the three boys was over 8 years of age, and nothing was ever done with them.
Now that you have been given a brief history lesson of the fire, it’s time to cache. The GPS coordinates will bring you to a familiar sight that most people drive past everyday. What some people may not know is that behind the brush that can be seen from the road, lays a marker commemorating the efforts of that day, and to honor all of those that tried so hard to save their homes and town from total catastrophe. The cache is a micro bison tube with a log book inside. BYOP. For a little more history, I have also included the coordinates to the original location of where you are, which also burned on that historic day. No cache there….just great history!
May need tweezers to remove from container.
Happy Caching!
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1940'f abiry ol Rearfg Urzvatjnl.
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