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Granbury Legends Series #2-John Wilkes Booth?**mis LbNA #14387 (ARCHIVED)

Owner:Kantexan
Plant date:Apr 11, 2005
Location:
City:Granbury
County:Hood
State:Texas
Boxes:1
Found by: Skyebird
Last found:Nov 29, 2007
Status:FFFFFFFFFFFFFFam
Last edited:Apr 11, 2005
This box is missing as of 2/7/08


Step back in time and visit Granbury, TX. To really get into the spirit of this letterbox, go to the Courthouse square and eat at the Nutshell restaurant and bakery. When you walk in you will notice a large mural on the wall to your right. Is that John Wilkes Booth tending bar? Local legend has it that after he shot Lincoln he fled to the South with the help of his co-conspiritors and a sympathetic ex-Confederacy. Once he got to Granbury he took the alias of John St. Helen and worked the bar in this very room. After he died his body was mummified and displayed in traveling shows until 1972, when the mummy disappeared. So much for DNA testing. Be sure and try the buttermilk pie while you are there!

To get to the letterbox head north from the square on Houston St. to the Houston Street Park. Walk under the sign and immediately turn left and follow the stone wall to its end. The box is hidden on top of the second wood post here under some Juniper branches. Be sure to put it back in the same spot and please reseal well!

When you were in the Nutshell did you look left at the other mural? Is that Jesse James behind that bandanna shooting that bear?