This Geocache is part of an annual Geocache Challenge put on by the Heritage Program at Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area as part of our outreach to the public, to get people to explore their forest and their history, and to share the unique heritage of the families from Between the Rivers.
This Geocache is part of the “2020 Land Between the Lakes Heritage Geocache Challenge: Trigg County Bicentennial Celebration”. There are 6 geocaches placed in Trigg County in Land Between the Lakes related to the Trigg County Heritage of the area. If you locate each geocache, and collect a numbered aluminum tree tag from each cache, you can turn them in at the Golden Pond Visitor Center for one of 200 Challenge Coins created for this event.
The Geocache is a 6” x 6” orange watertight plastic box marked “Heritage Geocache” on the top. The geocache is placed on the rocks along the hiking trail that leads under the bridge.
The Eggner’s Ferry Bridge Geocache
On January 13th of 1831, The Kentucky General Assembly approved an Act to establish a state road from Hopkinsville to the Mississippi River through Cadiz, Canton, and J.C. Pentecost’s Ferry on the Tennessee River. The location of Pentecost’s Ferry later became Eggner’s Ferry, and finally, Eggner’s Ferry Bridge. Prior to the creation of Trigg County, the Christian County court required the consent of the Indians who inhabited the western bank of the Tennessee River before the ferry could be established.