Fulton Iron Furnace Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 3/22/2016
Difficulty:
3.5 out of 5
Terrain:
3.5 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

This is one of 5 geocaches in the LBL Heritage Geocache 2016 Challenge.  This one is at the remains of the former Fulton Iron Furnace and is placed in honor of Jim Baccus, a former resident of the LBL area.
As of 9:15 am on 6-10-2016, all 100 of the LBL Heritage Geocache 2016 Challenge Coins have been given out to the successful geocachers who brought in their 5 tree tags. Thank you to everyone for making this challenge a great success!

This is one of the 5 geocaches in the LBL Heritage Geocache 2016 that requires a bit of hiking and a bit of bushwhacking.  If you do not have a rugged vehicle that can get you to the intersection of FS Rd 314 and 315, you will need to count on a bit more hiking and a bit more bushwhacking.  Even with a rugged vehicle (4x4, high clearance), I recommend parking at the intersection of 314 and 315 and proceeding to the geocache on foot since there is a blown at culvert at the bottom of the first hill.  FS Rd 315 at the access road to Soden Cemetery and if you get that far by vehicle you will need to walk the rest of the way to the geocache location.  You will follow old road traces where sometimes it is easier to walk the woods alongside the road trace than the actual roadbed as they tend to be overgrown and have downed trees across them.  You know you are getting close when you see the Respect the Resource sign.

This is the only cache with cultural materials (the other 4 are all hidden in natural settings) but please keep your impacts to cultural remains (which are everywhere and hard to miss) to a minimum.  You are looking for a bright colored watertight dry box (7” x 8” x 4”).  Sign the logbook and collect one of the numbered aluminum tree tags.  After you collect a tree tag from each of the 5 geocache sites, redeem them for a unique and distinctive challenge coin award at the LBL Golden Pond Visitor Center. 

One last incentive to get you out there early—in each box there are also 3 Buffalo tokens (gold color) to kick off the geocache tradition of “take something/leave something”.  These tokens were used to open the gate at the LBL Elk and Bison Prairie in the old days.

The furnace was built in 1845 and owned by Daniel Hillman and Dr. Thomas T. Watson as part of their Empire Iron Works which included Center and Empire Furnaces and the Tennessee Rolling Mill which they had transported piece by piece from where they purchased it in Tennessee to where they reconstructed it along the Cumberland River just two miles west of here.  The furnace stack was 33 feet high with an 11 foot bosh (see diagram).  Fulton Furnace was converted from cold blast to hot blast in 1856 but only remained in production one more year (closed 1857).  

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