This cache series was inspired by Trickworm's Pony Creek caches...
PATRICK says "Please Post some Photos so we can see the creek in all four seasons"
SILVER CREEK ROAD TOUR
This little series of six caches will take you on a tour of some of the bridges crossing Silver Creek as it meanders thru Wabash and Huntington Counties in rural Indiana, before emptying into the Wabash River via a 150 year old stone culvert.
SILVER CREEKThe "Payment Grounds" at the Forks of the Wabash has the following legend associated with it and with the naming of Silver Creek. At payment time in the early 1840’s, officials of the Wabash & Erie Canal would come to the "Payment Grounds" carrying boxes filled with silver coin to pay the laborers building the canal. One day while stopping for lunch a "hanger on" named Ferguson saw that they were not being watched. He seized one of the boxes and hid it in Woodworth's Creek, covering it with a stone.
Almost immediately, the box was missed, and Ferguson accused of stealing it. When he claimed innocence, they threatened to drown him. Finally realizing that they meant it, he confessed, the box was found and returned. Ferguson was let go with the understanding that he would leave the community. The creek was called Silver Creek in rememberance of that time.
--From The Forks To Paradise - Canal Society of Indiana 1996 Spring Tour guide
Culvert No. 45 was built to allow Woodsworth(Silver) Creek to pass under the Wabash & Erie Canal. Originally built of timber, a semi circle of 24” chord, it was replaced in the 1850’s or 60’s by the existing dressed stone arches.
LOOKING UPSTREAM
LOOKING DOWNSTREAM
Cache is in the ROW. You do NOT have to stand on the road bed of the bridge or on the road to search for or retrieve the cache container.Be VERY careful. DO NOT JUMP OFF THE BRIDGE HEADFIRST INTO THE WATER. Park with extreme caution. The container is of the black plastic micro variety, make sure the lid is on TIGHT. HINT may be a SPOILER. God Bless our Troops fighting overseas.
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