Travel Bug Dog Tag American Chestnut

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Owner:
Mr. T 2752 Send Message to Owner Message this owner
Released:
Friday, July 23, 2004
Origin:
New York, United States
Recently Spotted:
Unknown Location

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Current Goal

To travel from cache to cache so people can see wood from a tree that is almost gone.

About This Item

TB has a piece of American Chestnut wood attached to it. This rot resistant wood was once one of the most common trees in the Eastern U.S. It was used for fence posts, railroad ties, building materials and furniture. The wood looks a lot like Oak but has a mellow reddish brown color. It was almost destroyed by blight in the early 1900's and ceased to be available as commercial lumber by about 1920.

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    Tracking History (7887.8mi) View Map

    Dropped Off 3/27/2006 Grrr6 placed it in GHOSTBUSTER SERIES CACHE 2 "The Demon Murder Case" Connecticut - 19.03 miles  Visit Log
    Retrieve It from a Cache 12/14/2005 Grrr6 retrieved it from Wings & Beer Night Connecticut   Visit Log

    My husband was excited to come across this TB. He has always been interested in these beautiful trees. Here are the coordinates for a live American Chestnut located in Monroe/Newtown, Connecticut, right off the rails-to-trails trail: N 41 21.442' W 73 15.360'. My husband tells me this is about a 6" caliper tree and is healthy.
    Dropped Off 12/14/2005 Barefoot placed it in Wings & Beer Night Connecticut - 1,014.88 miles  Visit Log
    Retrieve It from a Cache 11/20/2005 Barefoot retrieved it from Wilderness Survivor Florida   Visit Log

    Moving this along.
    Dropped Off 10/3/2005 girlzgo placed it in Wilderness Survivor Florida - 13.64 miles  Visit Log
    Retrieve It from a Cache 9/11/2005 girlzgo retrieved it from Drove my Chevy to the levy...... Florida   Visit Log

    We'll keep moving this TB along... this is the second time we've come across this one!! -girlzgo-
    Dropped Off 8/10/2005 Retired Redleg & Missy Messy placed it in Drove my Chevy to the levy...... Florida - 5.34 miles  Visit Log
    Retrieve It from a Cache 8/6/2005 Retired Redleg & Missy Messy retrieved it from 44 Hide-a-Way Florida   Visit Log

    Will try and find a nice stand of trees for the bug. 😁
    Dropped Off 7/30/2005 girlzgo placed it in 44 Hide-a-Way Florida - 938.86 miles  Visit Log
    Grab It (Not from a Cache) 7/21/2005 girlzgo grabbed it   Visit Log

    actually retrieved it from "walk along the falls" in NC
    data on this page is cached for 3 mins