Thirty caches are located in five different regions throughout NC. 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 containers may 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.
Cranberry Iron Works
This was the site of one of the many rural iron mines prized by Confederates to supply raw materials for war production. Dozens of men worked here during the war producing bar iron for Southern foundries.
" In 1826 Joshua Perkins and two of his brothers took advantage of the General Assembly's 1778 act to build a forge and a dam at the Cranberry iron deposit. The first underground tunnels were driven into the vein in 1882, and a small blast furnace was constructed at the site to smelt the low-titanium ore. In that same year the East Tennessee & Western North Carolina Railroad began to run ore trains from Cranberry to Johnson City, Tenn., where the Cranberry Furnace Company later operated a larger blast furnace. Up to 1930, annual iron shipments from Cranberry to Johnson City ranged from 50,000 to 100,000 tons."
The cache is not located at the posted coordinates.
The sign at the posted coordinates will supply you with the information needed to find the cache.
The cache is located at N36 09.ABC W081.57.DEF.
To get ABC, take the year the Cranberry Iron and Coal Company was incorporated and subtract 1854.
To get DEF, take the year the Cranberry Iron and Coal Company was incorporated and subtract 1145.
Cache placed with permission from the Museum Director.