This public park is the location of the ruins of the Brierfield Rolling Mill, and the later added Nail Factory. It was where the pig iron produced at the Bibb Furnace (located at the Brierfield Ironworks Park) that wasn't shipped to the Confederate ordnance works in Selma for use in casting Brooke cannons was processed into other useable products, such as wrought iron bands for the cannons and iron nails. There are 6 educational plaques spaced around the park. The coords take you to the first one and you will need to proceed west in a clockwise manner to read all of them and answer the questions; one from each plaque. If you haven't visited the Ironworks Park it is a highly recommended educational experience and there are several active caches there.
This park is located near an active railroad so please take care with children when visiting. Parking is limited and is off road in the grass.
To get credit for this virtual cache answer the following questions from information gleaned from the educational plaques. **Note - I'm aware of the deterioration of the signs...it started after a tornado came over the area in 12/19. Just give the answers to the best of your ability to read them.**
1) Who ran the Brierfield Post Office out of this building in the 1920's & 1930's?
2) How many kegs of nails per day could be produced here?
3) Who owned the only house shown on this map?
4) What date was the first iron cast from the rebuilt second Bibb Furnace?
5) Who partially destroyed the rolling mill in March 1865?
6) How did Brierfield get it's name and what was it known as in 1885?
Send the answers to me for credit and don't leave any pictures of the text on the plaques in your posts.
Special credit and thanks go to Kevin Hubbard for making the preservation of this park and the installation of these plaques his Eagle Scout Service Project in 2014. Also to Dr Mike Mahan as an endless source of information for the history of the Brierfield area.
Congratulations to PaleBlueDot14 for the FTF!
Virtual Rewards 2.0 - 2019/2020
This Virtual Cache is part of a limited release of Virtuals created between June 4, 2019 and June 4, 2020. Only 4,000 cache owners were given the opportunity to hide a Virtual Cache. Learn more about Virtual Rewards 2.0 on the Geocaching Blog.