Thirty caches are located in five different regions throughout NC. Completing a region will earn a collectible item that will represent the region. Instructions for sending the documentation are in the passport. Once all five regions are completed, you have earned a special NC Civil War trackable geocoin. Mail the passport to the address inside the passport – then your passport will be returned with your unique coin. All of the containers are the same - camouflaged 6 inch PVC tubes - the code word you need for your passport is inside the container on a laminated card and also taped on the container that holds the log sheet. Date your logbook and add your code word in the numbered area for the cache. As the containersmay become over tightened, carry a TOTT to ease the opening process.Passports will be available at the event, some Civil War Museums in NC, and via mail if you send me you address or you can download your passport here.
Huggins Island Battery Hammocks Beach State Park is made up of three areas: the 30-acre Mainland, 980-acre unspoiled Bear Island with its wind-swept dunes and 211-acre thick maritime forested Huggins Island—all at the mouth of the White Oak River in Bogue Inlet. Huggins Island played an important role in the history of Swansboro and the state of North Carolina. In 1861 Confederate authorities found it necessary to construct a number of earthwork fortifications which included one on the White Oak River—to secure against Union attempts to advance inland from the coast. The battery on Huggins Island was completed early December of that year. In the construction, almost all of the physical labor was performed by Negro laborers—some free Negroes and the rest slaves. The bombproof was an underground chamber—a shell-proof magazine with timbers and soil above. A barracks building added accommodation for the garrison.—probably a simple log building. It is believed that only six 32-pound armaments were installed, later removed to New Bern to consolidate efforts against Burnside’s advance.
The final cache: N 34 40. ABC W 077 0D.EFG
The answer can be found by reading the Civil War marker at the posted coordinates.
ABC= Month and day in which Daniel Munn withdrew the Bladen Stars from Huggins Island + (plus) 584
DEFG= What year did the Federal Fleet sail to Swansboro + (plus) 6807
The final container is located approximately ¾ mile from the state park. You have to drive past the cache on your way out.