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” blue-gray watertight plastic box marked “Heritage Geocache” on the top. The geocache is placed next to a large tree.
The Hog Jaw Geocache
Members of this community referred to this area as “Hog Jaw” or sometimes simply “the Jaw”. This is due to the idea that the geography of this section of Trigg County resembled a hog jaw.
This Geocache is on the site of the former schoolhouse for the community, Spiceland School. If you look around, you might find remnants of the fence line for the school property.