CTM: Surrender Rock Multi-Cache

Historical Information:

Sherman’s forces led by Colonel Stone made it across the river upstream from here. At 10 a.m. on February 17, 1865, Columbia Mayor Goodwyn met Colonel Stone at this site to surrender the city. The Mayor received assurances that the city would be unharmed except for some public government buildings. Stone’s men then marched into the city of about 14,000 women, children and old men as Sherman and the rest of his occupying force crossed over the pontoon bridge on the Broad River and followed. That night all of the business and much of the residential area of the city was burned.

Cache Information:

The final is a lock in lock not too far away
Final at N 34° 01.BA0 W 081° 02.AC2
A= number of councilmen
B = Last two digits of the year erected subtracted (larger numer first)
C = Letters in the Mayor's lastname