Left in Levys Traditional Cache

Quick park-n-grab at the busiest spot in a not-so-busy little town. Micro with log. Might need to stand on tiptoes.
 

In 1918 the Seaboard Air Line Railway opened a line between Charleston and Savannah. In the midst of a Florida land boom and a rise in passenger train travel along the coast, this line became a vital link between cities and the equivalent of I-95 of its day. For fifty years passenger and freight trains thundered across the landscape connecting the quiet coastal villages with the outside world. The line provided access for massive logging projects that cleared vast sections of Lowcountry swamp and river bottoms, some evidence of which can be viewed along this section of the New River Linear Trail. The town of Bluffton had its own train station, and a local has told me that it was once located just below the viaduct where Hwy 46 crosses the trail. A patch of conspicuous bamboo reveals is location. The WPA guide to South Carolina even includes a little legend about the Seaboard Air Line in its description of our community. Pritchrdville, it says on page 329, was said to be settled by an Ohioan who had a ticket for Levys, Georgia but was put off at Levys South Carolina by mistake. He loved the area so much he stayed and settled. This cache is an homage to either his pioneering spirit - or a genuinely admirable easy-going nature that registers on a Richter scale of laziness all its own. Stop a little while in the "slowcountry" and maybe you will stay too.