Sawmill Run Traditional Cache
2diggers: Archived due to VDOT's guard rail cache policy.
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This micro cache is located near the area where the Union army camped at the time of the Battle of Fredericksburg. It is named after the small stream which ran through the camps.
Just north and east of Fredericksburg, across the Rappahannock and beyond the railroad line lays the area where the Union army camped. Confederate maps called one of the small creeks winding through the camps Sawmill Run; the Northerners’ name for it no one knows now. Today’s maps give it the utilitarian appellation Tributary 2 to Claiborne Run.
But Union soldiers did call this home in 1862. Members of the First and Second Brigades of the Army of the Potomac bivouacked around these coordinates and an observation balloon was anchored in a nearby valley bisected by Sawmill Run. During the battle Confederate artillery shelled the area but failed to puncture the balloon.
Today Sawmill Run divides the residential areas of Ridge Pointe and Hamlin Hills near VDOT. You won’t find a historical marker commemorating the campsites of the 9th New Hampshire and 100th Pennsylvania Corps which straddled the creek here at that time. What you will find is a small container slightly larger than a film canister. No room to leave anything, just log your visit and pay respects to the men who lived and died here over 140 years ago.
We’d like to thank the folks at the White Oak Museum at 985 White Oak Road in Falmouth for providing historical information about the area.
The log is a waterproof paper. Please use a pencil or ball point pen. Felt tip pens do not work well on this type of paper.
Please practice Cache In, Trash Out.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Or ba lbhe thneq, ab pyvzovat vf erdhverq!
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