Charles Arthur Floyd Cache Traditional Cache
K-Family Hikers: It appears the state has removed the sign and my geocache with it. It’s been a heck of an 18 year run since I hid it. But I guess it’s time to archive it. I hope a lot of people found it an interesting site. Thanks
Charles Arthur Floyd Cache
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This micro cache is placed in an area where not very long ago, the FBI’s public enemy number one was shot and killed by agents and police. The cache contains a log and a pencil. This cache is located in the very scenic, rolling countryside near Beaver Creek State Park.
Charles Arthur "Pretty Boy" Floyd rose from a callus-fingered cotton picker to trigger-fingered desperado, one of the most colorful, nervy bank robbers in the history of Depression-era America.
He robbed as many as 30 banks, killing 10 men. After the capture and death of John Dillinger, Floyd was named as Public Enemy No.1 with a $23,000 dollar dead or alive reward on his head.
On October 22, 1934 things would finally come to a fatal end for "Pretty Boy" Floyd. As the police approached the Conkle farm, they spotted a man behind the corn crib. Floyd started to flee. After being told to halt and not doing so a shot from a rifle hit Floyd in the arm. Floyd dropped his gun, grabbed his right forearm where he had been hit, but still jumped up and continued to run, darting for cover in the wooded area nearby. After another call to halt also went unheeded, Floyd was shot again, in his back right shoulder. The federal agents and local police all started firing at this time. Floyd fell to the ground, his gun by his side.
Thanks to the TheLePews log below, we now know there is a marker and placard at the site Pretty Boy Floyd was actually shot. It's 180 feet west of the marker, just a few yards into the woods. Walk towards the back of the U shaped drive, and before you get to the drive back to the model airplane field, look for a path on your left leading into the woods. The marker is only a few yards in. Great history....
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