SLSP8: Sink Hole Stumpy 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 if it is booked. 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.

In October of 1954, Singletary Lake State Park officially became the property of the state. In addition to serving as a source of recreation, the park played other important roles in the area. During the 1945 flooding of the Cape Fear River, the state parks system cooperated with the Red Cross in disaster relief, and Singletary Lake was used as a refugee center. During world wars, the area was used by the Anti-Aircraft School from Camp Davis for special training programs.

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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".