Near the location of this travel bug motel is one of Prattville's major landmarks concerning its founder: Daniel Pratt.
Daniel Pratt, Alabama's first industrialist, began his career as a carpenter and in succeeding years he helped Alabama achieve a place in the industrial world. In the process he made an indelible mark for himself in the history of the state. Prattville is frequently referred to as the birth place of industry in Alabama.
Pratt gambled his every resource on the strength of his convictions, not once but many times throughout his life. He split with his partner in the manufacture of cotton gins and brought his share of the material inventory, consisting of parts for fifty gins, to Alabama. As his factory prospered, he added new enterprises: a sawmill; a grist mill; a sash, door and blind factory; an iron foundry; and a woolen mill. He built a railroad, opened a bank and built the blast furnaces at Oxmoor, near Birmingham. He was also a major stockholder in the venture that saw the first successful manufacture of pig iron made with Alabama ore and coke from Alabama coal.
Pratt's establishment of an iron and steel industry, coming as it did in the immediate post-Civil War years, played an important role in the recovery of the state. Two cities bear his name: Prattville, near Montgomery, where he founded his empire, and Pratt City, adjoining Birmingham, which is located near the edge of the state's largest seam of coal, the Pratt Seam, named in his honor shortly after his death.
From this cache location, you will be looking at the factory spoken of above. There is a great view of Prattville's Downtown area from here as well.
The cache is NOT inside the fenced in area.
While you are in the area, don't miss BamaGeek's "Old Mill Stream" cache. The waypoint is GCH9T6.
 Kid Friendly  Travel Bug Hotel
 Beware of Muggles!  Historic Site
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