Lynchburg Ferry Virtual Cache
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Lynch's Ferry, on the San Jacinto River below its confluence with Buffalo Bayou in Harris County, was built in 1822 by Nathaniel Lynch at the approximate site of Lynchburg on the main land route from South Texas to the Mexican border. The ferry, a flatboat service with a hand-pulled rope for power, was one of numerous conveyances that developed on the waterways of southern Harris County. On January 1, 1830, Lynch received an operating license from the ayuntamiento of San Felipe. When Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna hoped to cut off the retreat of the Texas army across Lynch's ferry in April 1836, local residents fled the approaching Mexican army in the Runaway Scrape. Dilue Rose Harris later recalled waiting three days at the ferry with 5,000 others. Lynch bequeathed the ferry to his family, and it was later sold to a series of operators. In 1837 the Harris County Commissioners Court set ferry rates, and in 1890 the ferry operated for the first time free to persons, freight, and animals, In 1949 a ferry operating at the same site across the Houston Ship Channel was called the Lynchburg Ferry. Twenty-five miles below the turning basin, today's ferry connects the Crosby-Lynchburg Road below the San Jacinto River mouth.
If you approach this cache from the other side, the coordinates are N29 45.695 W95 04.843.
Another cache for my handicap friends.
To claim your find, email me with:
1. On the original coordinate side, what INN is on the right of the ferry entrance?
Good luck and Have fun.
I hope you like this one.
Take a ride, it's free.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Ab uvagf sbe guvf bar.