INDIGO EXCHANGE Traditional Geocache
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This cache is available Monday through Friday from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm and Saturday from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm. The 5 x 7 x 2 container is camoed to blend with the surroundings. The coordinates are accurate and will get you to within 15 feet of the cache. You must go inside to arrive at the cache. No need to make a purchase.
This cache is dedicated to Eliza Lucas Pinckney (1722-1793) who in 1989 became the first woman to be inducted into the South Carolina Business Hall of Fame. She was educated in England and her favorite subject was botany. In 1738 her father moved her family to Charleston, SC because of her mother’s poor health. Her mother died shortly afterwards and her father had to return to the West Indies leaving Eliza in charge of her younger siblings and three plantations at the age of 16. She later wrote, “…in those years I was very early found of the vegetable world…accordingly when he [Col. Lucas] went to the West Indies, he sent me a variety of seeds, among them, Indigo.” The indigo plant was used in producing blue dye. In 1739 Eliza began experimenting with growing indigo in South Carolina. By the third year she produced seventeen pounds of indigo powder which was sent to England and deemed to be of excellent quality. She distributed the seeds from her crop to neighboring growers and by the 1745-46 season 5000 pounds of indigo was exported from South Carolina. Within 2 years indigo was established as an important “cash crop” with exports increasing to 130,000 pounds. By the beginning of the Revolutionary War South Carolina was exporting over 1,000,000 pounds per year.
At the age of 22 she married Charles Pinckney and raised two sons: Charles Cotesworth Pinckney and Thomas Pinckney. She continued to experiment with crops of silk, hemp and flax. Charles C. Pinckney experimented in agriculture and became one of the first successful planters of Sea Island cotton. Both of her sons played an active role in the American Revolution and the formation of the government of United States of America that followed. Eliza died in Philadelphia, PA in May, 1793 after traveling there for treatment for an illness. George Washington [then President of the United States], at his own request, served as a pallbearer at her funeral. If you are interested in discovering more about Eliza Lucas Pinckney and the roles her sons played in the early formation of the United States of America examine the sources below that I used in creating this description.
• www.infoplease.com
• www.winkipedia.com
• www.distingushedwomen.com
• The South Carolina Business Hall of Fame
• Plantation Patriot: A Biography of Eliza Lucas Pinckney by Frances Leigh Williams
• Representative Americans; The Colonists by Norman K. Risjord
• The Letterbook of Eliza Lucas Pinckney by Eliza Lucas Pinckney
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