He's Alive! XXV Shady Grove Traditional Cache
He's Alive! XXV Shady Grove
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Eastern Tennessee is considered part of the "Bible belt" and the surrounding Smoky Mountain communities hold
their religious believes in high esteem!
He's Alive! XXV Shady Grove
Shady Grove Baptist Church
This is the twenty sixth in a continuing series of He's Alive! caches.
Many of the local Smoky Mountain churches have small congregations, are quaint and friendly, and their structures have a very typical country facade.
Frequently small in size, though large in stature, the church is distinguished by being white in color with a double door step-up entrance and a steeple as modest as the congregation within. The more "luxurious" steeple will house a meeting bell.
G. R. Atchley and Benjamin Langston directed the organization of the Baptist Church of Christ at Pleasant Hill March 24, 1871. The name was changed the first Saturday in 1872 to Shady Grove.
October 20, 1894, church gave R. G. Shield permission to join his mill to the church if he would be responsible for damages. At the same meeting, it was agreed that a free school would be taught at the church. A Mr. Caton has been given permission to teach.
April 19, 1890, the old church was sold to N. C. Green for $3. Church services were held in a new church house half of the time commencing on “...Saturday before the third Sunday each month.” Apparently, the house was shared with another denomination.
A building committee made up of G. R. McMahan, J. L. Brown, William Wilson, David Watson, R. C. F. McMahan, James Clark, and R. S. Shields, was told to sell the church in 1896 for whatever they could get for it. The right to meet in the building until a new church was erected was retained.
The new building site adopted September 21, 1897 is described as being at the corner of Brother D. C. Watson’s fields between the forks of the public road and the graveyard. Levi Branson, J. W. Trentham, and J. L. Smith served on the fund-raising committee. D. B. Watson took the “oversight of building for a dollar a day ...for half time or fifty cents a day for all the time he worked on the church.” He built the house for $15 and donated the rest of his labor. The old church ceiling and lights were traded to Reverend J. W. Trentham for seven days work and the old flooring went to D. B. Watson for $2.50 labor. R. G. Shields paid three dollars for the remainder of the old church. D. B. Watson was allotted $9.50 to run stovepipe out of the new house.
The church body moved into the new building in 1901 but “there was no preaching because of the big snow.” (In April).
The then new building was dedicated June 21, 1903 and two years later M. C. Green and W. Williams supervised building a tall white steeple with pine shingles.
The newer larger section of the church was built over a century later.
The best time to visit this geocache is obviously during non Sunday meeting hours as there will be less traffic in the immediate area.
This cache is located near the Shady Grove Baptist Church off of Old Birds Creek Road and Shady Grove Road in Sevierville, Tennessee. The micro cache is a camo 35mm film canister with a rolled up log sheet inside. Be sure to bring a pen or pencil to sign.
Please remember the exact place and position you retrieve the cache so as to return it in the same manner!
A hint is provided if you so choose to use.
Godspeed and enjoy the hunt!
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
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