SLSP2: Coastal Plain Traditional Cache

This cache is available at all times that the park is open. But they do not want cachers cutting through the Group Site to access the area where it is hidden. Therefore Park Management requests that you check with them to see if the Group Site is booked. Either call before (910-669-2928), or visit the office before you set out to get this cache. If the site IS booked, please use the alternative access waypoint.

Singletary Lake is one of a series of Carolina bay lakes that stretch from New Jersey to Florida along the Atlantic Coastal Plain. Exactly how the lakes were formed remains a mystery. What is known is that Singletary Lake is not fed by any stream but relies entirely upon rain. The land beneath and surrounding the lake is mica-rich sandy clay and sand that is from the Upper Cretaceousera with a thin layer of Pleistocene deposits covering it. This land is lower than the surrounding land and drains very poorly, creating Singletary Lake.

You are looking for a geocache.

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Singletary Lake was named for Richard Singletary, who received a grant of land in Bladen County in 1729. Since colonial times, the region surrounding Singletary Lake was settled and used for subsistence farming along its river lowlands and creek bottoms. Longleaf pines—primarily used for turpentine pitch and timber—were then prolific in the area. They were logged and used used for the production of naval stores.

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Permission was granted in person by the Superintendent of the State Park, Kristen Woodruff. She required a Special Use Permit. Permit is under "Robert Maile, North Carolina Geocachers Organisation, #45-7".