Bart's Start Traditional Cache
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Easy for good motorcycle break! Some gravel
but managable for access and return to main road. Easy stretch and
walk. This time of year use a stick or short 9 iron to poke around.
Grass is maintained by GA DOT so sometimes it is high!
Our daily route to UGA, shopping, and church has often taken us
past this historic stop. We used it many times as a pit stop for a
quick “Mothers Time Out” as well as a moon pie and Mt. Dew break.
It is a nice little wayside park right on the route to everything.
Good place to stretch your legs on a motorcycle ride or getting the
2 leg or four legs out for a stretch. Just please CITO.
6-23-12 New container but prepare with a reaching tool avoid critters hiding in places like this
TRAVEL BUGS: TB: Bumble Bee Vasitt TB: Top Gun (virgin start)
History of the Cache
William Bartram was America’s first native
born naturalist/artist and the first author in the modern genre of
writers who portrayed nature through personal experience as well as
scientific observation. Bartram’s momentous southern journey took
him from the foothills of the Appalachian mountains to Florida,
through the southeastern interior all the way to the Mississippi
River. His work thus provides descriptions of the natural,
relatively pristine eighteenth-century environment of eight modern
states: North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama,
Mississippi, Louisiana and Tennessee. William Bartram published an
account of his adventure in 1791. It quickly became an American
classic and Bartram's Travels has been described by one scholar as
“the most astounding verbal artifact of the early republic.” From
Buffalo Lick, Col. Barnet’s party followed an old Cherokee trail in
a northwesterly direction to “Cherokee Corner” on the boundary
between Clark and Oglethorpe counties, about nine miles southeast
of Athens.(46) Although Bartram’s geographical descriptions become
vague at this point, it is believed that he continued northward
with Col. Barnet’s party through eastern Clarke County and western
Madison County and then northeastward through northern Madison
County, southeastern Franklin County and central Hart County. From
about the site of present-day Bowersville (Hart County), the group
went east to the Savannah River at the mouth of the Tugaloo. From
here, the southerly route to Augusta was “generally through the low
lands on the banks of the Savannah.”(47) By the middle of July,
1773, having retraced his earlier route from Augusta, Bartram was
again in Savannah.
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