Four Heads Cache Second Try Traditional Cache
Four Heads Cache Second Try
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This is the site of the Simon Kenton Grave. Once you arrive you will get the meaning of the Four Heads. I was way off on the first try at this one and had to read do it (Second Try) These are the cords that should get you there the trees are big and tall exact readings are hard to get.
Simon Kenton was born in the Bull Run Mountains, Fauquier County, Virginia to Mark Kenton, Sr. and Mary Miller Kenton. In 1771, at the age of 16, thinking he had killed a man in a jealous rage, he fled into the wilderness of Kentucky and Ohio, and for years went by the name "Simon Butler." In 1782, When he learned that the victim was still alive, he returned to Virginia and readopted his original name.
Kenton served as a scout against the Shawnee in 1774 in the conflict between Native Americans and European settlers later labeled Dunmore's War. In 1777, he saved the life of his friend and fellow frontiersman, Daniel Boone, at Boonesborough, Kentucky.
Kenton served on the famous 1778 George Rogers Clark expedition to capture Fort Sackville and also fought with "Mad" Anthony Wayne in the Ohio Indian Wars in 1793-94. Kenton moved to Urbana, Ohio in 1810, and achieved the rank of brigadier general of the Ohio militia. He served in the War of 1812 as both a scout and as leader of a militia group in the Battle of the Thames in 1813.
Kenton died in New Jerusalem, Ohio (in Logan County) and was first buried there. His body was later moved to Urbana, Ohio.
Kenton, Ohio, seat of Hardin County, in northwest Ohio was named in honor of Simon Kenton. A local school for the mentally retarded and developmentally disabled in Hardin County is named Simon Kenton.
Simon Kenton High School is in Independence, Kentucky.
The Simon Kenton Council is the name of a geographical division of the Boy Scouts of America, spanning from Central Ohio to northern
This information was obtained from (visit link)
This is a Micro so bring your own Writing instrument. This time of year it is hard to get an exact mark because of the trees. Should be close. You might need to use Stealth this place is some times busy.
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Fubhyq or pybfr (Gerr)
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