Bead-Bath Pale Green Stone Donut TB

This trackable has the goal to circulate more than five years and to be moved by at least 25 cachers. That is a rate of five drops per year for five years, or a drop every 73 days.   As of 18-May-21 it had survived for 1.4 years and had been moved by 6 cachers, for an average release every 85 days. Keep it moving!

No permission is needed to leave the U.S. While in the U.S., please drop it in a Premium Member only OR a rural cache near a busy trail or road. Do not place it in an urban cache or abandon it at a caching event where there is no security. Transport the bug in the original plastic bag for as long as the bag lasts; the bag keeps the trackable clean, protects the number and prevents tangling with other items. Otherwise, take the trackable anywhere you wish.

This is one of a series of large beads obtained from different places and converted into travel bugs.  They are named for Texas towns with interesting names or histories.  Much of the text is from the online Handbook of Texas or texasescapes.com.

Bath, originally called Possum Walk, was a community on Farm Road 1374 eight miles west of Interstate Highway 45 in southwestern Walker County.  The Union Hill Baptist Church was established there in 1872. Postal authorities did not approve the name Possum Walk, so in 1877, the community became Bath for reasons now lost.  Bath reported twenty-five residents in 1892 and forty in 1896.  The Union Hill church building served as both a place of worship and a schoolhouse until a separate facility for the school was provided in 1899.  Around 1900 two cotton gins, a gristmill, and a sawmill operated at Bath.  The post office closed in 1905.  In 1911 the community still had its school, which had seven grades, and the church. As late as 1936 Bath persisted as a community of scattered farm dwellings clustered around the school and church. By the early 1990s only the Union Hill Baptist Church and a cemetery remained.