GC44X32 Tobesofkee Creek (Traditional Cache) in Georgia, United States created by zanna

This cache has been archived.

zanna: After thinking long and hard on what to do with this series, I have come to the decision to archive it. Its had a good run, but just about every season the containers and logs need refreshing and it's not convenient to anything in my life.

Hopefully someone will do something great with all this new real estate!

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Hidden : 1/19/2013

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Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Take a hike along the newly opened section of the South River Trail and learn a bit about Georgia's rivers!

This series will provide some great one on one time with nature as you learn about the many rivers throughout the state. Rivers have always played a vital role in the history and development of Georgia, and continue today to be major sources of drinking water, navigation, and recreation.

The Georgia River series is not a P&G series. Almost all of the caches are along a paved PATH trail that can be accessed by walking, running, or biking. There are a few different points that you can jump on the trail, but we recommend parking at the Gresham Park Recreation Center at the corner of Gresham Rd and Clifton Church Rd.

The South River Trail is still expanding with plans to connect to the Atlanta BeltLine to the west and Panola Mountain State Park to the east.

The Tobesofkee Creek is a 58.9-mile-long (94.8 km) river in Georgia. It originates near Barnesville and flows roughly southeast across Lamar, Monroe, and Bibb counties to join the Ocmulgee River south of the city of Macon. A dam on this stream forms Lake Tobesofkee.

After 1670 the Lower Creek Trading Path, which linked Creek towns on the Chattahoochee River to the English colonial town of Charlestown, crossed Tobesofkee Creek. The river has been called by several names in the Muskogee language, spoken by Creek Indians. The earliest recorded name is Togosohatchee. In 1776 William Bartram recorded the river's name as Tobosochte.

The meaning of the name Tobesofkee is unclear, although it appears to contain the word sofkee, a hominy dish that is considered the forerunner of grits. The name was first recorded in the 1790s by Benjamin Hawkins, the United States agent to the Creek Indians, who spelled it variously as Tobosaufkee, Tobe saufe ke, and Tobesauke.

In his 1905 study of U.S. place names, Henry Gannett derived the stream's name (which he spelled "Tobesofka") from the supposed fact that "an Indian lost a dish of meal while crossing it." William A. Read later translated the name as meaning "sofkee stirrer," from atapa (tool for stirring) and safki (corn gruel). Historian John Goff criticized Gannett's interpretation as "open to doubt" and concluded that, with the available historical sources, "it would be mere speculation to attempt to translate Tobesofkee."

Between 1963 and 1967 the U.S. Soil Conservation Service and the Bibb County Commission built a series of dams on Tobesofkee Creek to form flood control reservoirs, including Lake Tobesofkee and the Javors Lucas Reservoir, also known as "Little Lake Tobosofkee." The Lake Tobesofkee Recreation Area opened in 1969, and private developers built and sold lakefront houses over the following decades. By the turn of the 21st century Lake Tobesofkee was considered one of the most heavily fished lakes in Georgia

You are hunting a micro container with log only so BYOP!

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