4 M Multi-Cache
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4 M
That is what you are now, geographically speaking, in distance from the intersection of University Boulevard and Greensboro Avenue, or as during the day when this monument was first erected, Broad Street and Market Street. This road, know referred to as University Boulevard, was once known as the Huntsville Road.
So you are now located 4 miles from that intersection, as noted by the original mile marker here on the side of University Boulevard. The marker is not ornate; its sole purpose to give one small bit of information to the passing traveler.
The history of the Huntsville Road was presented in Matthew Clinton’s book Tuscaloosa, Alabama - Its Early Days 1816 – 1865.
“Early explorers of America found the Indian villages connected by a network of trails. Some of these trails were developed into roads by the white man. The Huntsville Road probably originated in this manner. In 1813 Davy Crockett was a scout in Colonel Coffee's command. In an account of a scouting expedition, Davy mentions a road going south from Ditto's Landing (Guntersville). He also refers to it as an Indian trace. In his account of his second trip to Tuscaloosa in 1815 he mentions a trace near the present site of Bessemer. Mary Gordon Duffee, in describing the return of Mrs. Crawley to Tennessee in 1812, says that the party probably came up the St. Stephens Road, now
called the Greensboro Road, to Tuscaloosa and that they followed the old Indian trail past Elyton to Ditto's Landing. James O. Crump, whose boat was the second one to reach Tuscaloosa in 1816, in the account printed in the Alabama Republican, tells of the transportation of his goods to Huntsville, He says: "In eight days the wagons reached this place from the Falls of the Black Warrior over a road three-fifths of which is level and the balance not much broken. ...There has been very little labor bestowed in cutting out the road." In 1822 the Legislature of Alabama established the Huntsville Road from Tuscaloosa to Jonesboro as a public road.”
I have driven this road for many years and was not aware of this marker being here. I think I am like so many others who simply have driven past and not glanced this way and wondered about this roadside marker.
To locate the final, gather a little information from the surrounding area of the marker and make your way to the final. Be mindful of the traffic as you leave here and find your way from here to the cache container.
33 12.4AB
87 29.9CD
A = The number of yellow colored bricks visible in the foundation for the marker.
B = Add 3 to the number on the marker.
C = Look for a cluster crept myrtle trees very close to the marker; like less than 10 feet way. Look about 1 foot above the ground and count the number of trunks and subtract 1 from that number.
D = Again from the number of trunks in the same crept myrtle bush, add 2 to that number.
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