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Midnight Special Traditional Geocache

This cache has been archived.

West Texas Reviewer: Cache Owner (CO) has not responded, so the cache is being archived to keep it from continually showing up in search lists, and to prevent it from blocking new cache placements. If you wish to repair/replace this cache sometime in the future (not to exceed 15 days from the date of this entry), just contact me (by e-mail), and assuming it still meets the current Guidelines, I will consider unarchiving this cache.

Please be advised this is not a guarantee that this geocache will be unarchived. Many factors will go into my decision. The most important of which is how you responded to geocachers who tried to communicate with you regarding the problem(s) with this geocache hide and how you communicated with me, the West Texas Reviewer.

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Hidden : 1/11/2010
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

This is not a difficult hide. I wanted to bring you here to see a glimpse of the history of our area.

If you're ever down in Houston
Boy, you better walk right
And you better not squabble
And you better not fight

Bason and Brock will arrest you
Payton and Boone will take you down
You can bet your bottom dollar
That you're Sugar Land bound

Let the Midnight Special
Shine the light on me
Let the Midnight Special
Shine the ever-lovin' light on me

This cemetery is a grim reminder of the Central State Farm. Pat Neff ordered this cemetery built after it was discovered that inmates were being buried where they dropped. This was farming territory and the areas that inmates were given were a direct correlation of the offenses that were committed. Snakes along the river were "bigger round than most man's arms". Murderers and Negros worked along the river. The river was big and took many a life.
What is now home to middle class America was home to some of the most hardened criminal Texas has ever seen. The convict train ran from Houston to San Antonio. Every night the train stopped in Sugar Land at midnight.It was said that if the light of the train shined on ya' , you were next in line to leave the prison. "Leadbelly" a singer/murderer wrote this tune about the farm. CCR made the song famous.
We hope you enjoy this area.

Close the gate behind you, we wouldn't want anyone getting out, would we?

Additional Hints (No hints available.)