GCQXZR Dill Cemetery (Traditional Cache) in Tennessee, United States created by regnad

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A cache by regnad Message this owner

Hidden : 10/10/2005

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Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

You are looking for an ammo box near Dill Cemetery. Please hide and cover the cache as well or better than you found it. Don't forget the insect repellant.

In the 1780s, Revolutionary War veterans were given land in western Kentucky and Tennessee where the Cumberland and Tennessee rivers which form an inland peninsula as payment for their service.

In the late 1940s Kentucky Dam was constructed on the Tennessee River, forming Kentucky Lake. In the early 1960s Barkley Dam was constructed on the Cumberland River, forming Barkley Lake.

These two projects permanently flooded the best cropland in the area, and together with three rounds of eminent domain disrupted the agricultural communities of the families who had resided there for six or more generations beginning with the first Revolutionary War veteran settlers.

In 1963, just after Lake Barkley’s formation, President John F. Kennedy created Land Between The Lakes National Recreation Area to demonstrate how an area with limited timber, agricultural, and industrial resources could be converted into a recreation asset that would stimulate economic growth. The remaining 900 plus families were moved to complete this project. LBL consists of 170, 000 acres and is the country’s only such demonstration area.

Today there are still remnants of the communities that were once in LBL. Dill Cemetery is just one example.

Info gathered from the following websites:
http://www.kyseeker.com/btr/dnickell.html
http://www.kentuckylake.com/lbl/lbl2.htm

Find more information on Land Between the Lakes here:
http://www.lbl.org/Home.html

A special thank you to the original hiders hammerjane and silver dragon and to Writergirl for maintaining the cache when they moved out of the area.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Gur pnpur vf orgjrra n oebxra fghzc naq n snyyra cvar.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)