Cache is a small rectangular box. Mud very possible in and around this cache. Bring your pole and fishing license; you’ll be glad you did.
Turn off of 31W at N 39* 20.917’ / W 085* 58.761’
William Wallace Atterbury was born in New Albany, IN in 1866 and graduated with an engineering degree from Yale in 1886. He worked his way through the ranks at Pennsylvania Railroad and gained national recognition from the Great Railroad Strike in 1894 during violence in Chicago. Atterbury moved up to Vice President of Operations at PRR in 1912 and also elected to President of the American Railway Association in 1916.
Atterbury earned the respect and attention of President Woodrow Wilson and General John J. ‘Black Jack’ Pershing with his rail support of troop movements and supplies in the apprehension of Pancho Villa and the Mexican Punitive Expedition. Atterbury was called to national service as a civilian during World War I to solve the Army’s transportation problems in Europe as the Director of Transportation for the Allied Force.
General Pershing inducted Atterbury into the Army at the rank of Brigadier General (the only rank he ever held). He commanded 60,000 soldiers, 2000 locomotives, 20,000 freight cars and 3000 passenger cars. Atterbury also built an additional 1500 miles of railroad tracks in support of the war effort.
After less than two years of service, he returned a hero and resumed civilian work at PRR where he was elected president in 1925. Atterbury also established the Transcontinental Air Transport Company, later known as Trans World Airways (TWA), with Charles Lindberg and Henry Ford. Atterbury pressed on until ill health forced his retirement in 1935. He died six months later.
-Information collected from the Camp Atterbury’s publication ‘Atterbury Crier 2001.’