150 Geocaches have been hidden to guide your exploration of NC as you traverse highways and by-ways across the state as you learn from those fighting and those keeping the home fires burning during the Civil War, 1861 - 1865.
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 will 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 and the five regional pathtags.
This container is a replacement cache and NOT the PVC tube as with many of the Civil War Trail caches. Date your logbook and add your code word in the numbered area for the cache.
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.
Salisbury Prison
The Confederate government in 1861 purchased 16 acres here, including several buildings, to serve as a prison for captured Union troops. When the exchange system broke down in 1864, the facility became overloaded to four times its original capacity of 2,500 men. An estimated 3,500 prisoners died here. The Salisbury National Cemetery was established originally by the Confederates as the prison burial ground.
DO NOT PARK in the driveway - stay on the sidewalk. This is a private residence beyond the sidewalk. NO night caching at this location.
The puzzle to find the final:
N35° 39.8(A+3)9 W080° 27.730
A = the first digit in number of yards from this trail marker was the main entrance to the prison compound location