There isn't
any good parking area here - you just have to pull off on the
side of the road. The ground is a little flatter near the
bridge.
This used to be
an offset cache, but now it is just a regular cache. Visit Union
Falls at N 31 deg, 28.892 minutes, W 89 deg, 10.159 minutes, then
go for the cache container at the coordinates listed above. Your
best approach to the cache will probably be from the backside,
following the creek downstream from the falls until you are
close.
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Cedar Man has contacted me a couple of times now with some of the
history and his memories of Union Falls. His comments are copied
below.
Cedar Man
wrote:
I am one of the three fine upstanding citizens that helped place
the stand that the plate is on. Must have been in the 50's. It was
originally a platform to dive from. I'm glad to see our work proved
time worthy. Lots of fun was experienced in this place. I grew up a
mile+ east of the bridge.
And in
another email, Cedar Man wrote:
More on Union Falls, or "The Waterfall" as I knew of it. Back in
1957 or '58 I think it was, several of the local swimmers decided
we needed a diving board. Joe Ellzey (who still lives in the Union
area, I think), David Davis (now in Dothan, AL) and I (Tom Turner,
Huntsville, AL) started making the holes in the rock with a
butterfly punch and hammer. It took two long afternoons to get the
holes deep enough and flared at the bottom. We concreted the pipe
with the plate in the front hole and used two long bolts with large
washers at the rear end. After the concrete dried for a few days,
we were ready to bolt on the spring board. Joe, another local Jim
Tisdale (I think) were given the springboard from the county barn
at Moselle. David and I met them to install the board. The best I
remember the board was a pine 2 1/2" by 14" or 16" and about 12'
long. David and Joe took the board down each winter for several
years to save the board. The board was long but it would send you
sky high. It was not unusual to see 20-30 people at the falls on a
Sunday afternoon lined up to take a dive. Thanks for stirring my
memories. When I get back down there I plan to locate your cache.
You are welcome to post any of these memories on the cache
site.
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Have fun and enjoy the view!
Model Citizen -
Zero Discipline
