The Magician's Nephew -NC LbNA #21501 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | The Gamecock  |
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| Plant date: | Apr 16, 2006 |
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| City: | Chapel Hill |
| County: | Orange |
| State: | North Carolina |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Found by: | the flory family |
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| Last found: | Jul 28, 2006 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFFF |
| Last edited: | Apr 16, 2006 |
***THIS BOX WILL BE EXPIRING AUGUST 1ST***
This is the sixth of seven Letterboxes in the Narnia Series. Each titled to the corresponding book. They were my favorite as a child. Encourage READING!!
Find Gimghouls Castle. Hint: It's at the end of Gimghoul Road and is the only structure on Shaffer Circle.
Warning: This is private property. No trespassing is allowed. However "joggers" are only shrugged at! Park at the church and walk or do you have the kahoonies to park in the drive? It is said the ghost of Peter will see you from the top window and may tinker with your car!
East of the horseshoe driveway, follow the ivy covered stone wall leading to the back of the castle. A small tree is on the Right side of the path just before you reach the the Battle Seat dedicated to the Kemp Plummer Battle. 3 feet North of the tree, hidden in the ivy covered wall is the Nephew. Remember to cover well!!
Historical Note
In the autumn of 1889, Edward Wray Martin, William W. Davies, Shepard Bryan, Andrew Henry Patterson, and Robert Worth Bingham decided to form a secret junior society at the University of North Carolina available to others by invitation only. However, they did not decide on the exact nature of their proposed society until, during a lecture on American politics, Dr. "Pres" Battle told his class about the legend of Peter Dromgoole, a student who disappeared from the University in 1833 under disputed circumstances. The five men then decided to use the legend as the basis for their secret society and so formed the Order of Dromgoole, shortly thereafter changed to Gimgoole and then amended to Gimghoul, as stated by W. W. Davies, "in accord with midnight and graves and weirdness." E. Wray Martin created the initiation ritual, constitution, and bylaws. As years passed, the Order consolidated its beliefs and customs into a combination of the Dromgoole legend and the ideals of Arthurian knighthood and chivalry. Only male students (rising juniors or higher) and faculty were invited to join the organization, and no list of current members was provided until the end-of-year publication of the campus yearbook. As of the late 1990s, the society remained purely social and avoided publicity.
In 1915 a Durham land company sought to purchase Battle Park from the University. The park was of special significance to the Gimghouls, because it was there that Peter Dromgoole may have been killed. The Order made a counteroffer, won, and spent the next eight years trying to pay for its new land. In 1923 the Order decided to sell its old lodge, a small house located at the corner of Rosemary and Boundary streets and build a new one. Battle Park was divided into thirds: one part was donated back to the University to be used exclusively as a park; one part was sold in lots to individuals for residential development; and one part was kept for the new Gimghoul lodge, a stone castle that still stands in the Historic Gimghoul District neighborhood. Nathaniel Cortlandt Curtis, New Orleans architect and Gimghoul alumnus, drafted the plans for the castle in 1924. In 1925 stone masons from the town of Valdese, near Morganton, N.C., were employed to help construct the castle, which was completed in 1926. The masons also built the Battle Seat, a rough semicircular bench made from the "freshman rock pile", a stone cairn that formed over time when students, typically freshmen, would walk to Point (Piney) Prospect and leave a stone on a rock pile that was started in the 19th century by President Battle.
Thomas F. Hickerson, professor of civil engineering and applied mathematics at the University and an expert in highway design, joined the Gimghouls in the early 1920s and assisted in planning the castle's construction. Until his death in 1967, he acted as custodian, advisor, and primary contact for the Order. Charlie Shaffer and Professor of English Lyman A. Cotten, Jr., succeeded Dr. Hickerson in these duties. Dr. Cotten joined the Gimghouls in the mid-1930s and was a trustee of the Order from 1952 until his death in 1991.
The Gimghoul District was declared historic in 1993; at that time the property on which the castle is located was owned by the Gimghoul Corporation and leased out yearly to the active Order. The castle grounds remain off limits to the public.
For more info:
http://www.ibiblio.org/bgreenwe/UNCMyths/gimghoul.html
This is the sixth of seven Letterboxes in the Narnia Series. Each titled to the corresponding book. They were my favorite as a child. Encourage READING!!
Find Gimghouls Castle. Hint: It's at the end of Gimghoul Road and is the only structure on Shaffer Circle.
Warning: This is private property. No trespassing is allowed. However "joggers" are only shrugged at! Park at the church and walk or do you have the kahoonies to park in the drive? It is said the ghost of Peter will see you from the top window and may tinker with your car!
East of the horseshoe driveway, follow the ivy covered stone wall leading to the back of the castle. A small tree is on the Right side of the path just before you reach the the Battle Seat dedicated to the Kemp Plummer Battle. 3 feet North of the tree, hidden in the ivy covered wall is the Nephew. Remember to cover well!!
Historical Note
In the autumn of 1889, Edward Wray Martin, William W. Davies, Shepard Bryan, Andrew Henry Patterson, and Robert Worth Bingham decided to form a secret junior society at the University of North Carolina available to others by invitation only. However, they did not decide on the exact nature of their proposed society until, during a lecture on American politics, Dr. "Pres" Battle told his class about the legend of Peter Dromgoole, a student who disappeared from the University in 1833 under disputed circumstances. The five men then decided to use the legend as the basis for their secret society and so formed the Order of Dromgoole, shortly thereafter changed to Gimgoole and then amended to Gimghoul, as stated by W. W. Davies, "in accord with midnight and graves and weirdness." E. Wray Martin created the initiation ritual, constitution, and bylaws. As years passed, the Order consolidated its beliefs and customs into a combination of the Dromgoole legend and the ideals of Arthurian knighthood and chivalry. Only male students (rising juniors or higher) and faculty were invited to join the organization, and no list of current members was provided until the end-of-year publication of the campus yearbook. As of the late 1990s, the society remained purely social and avoided publicity.
In 1915 a Durham land company sought to purchase Battle Park from the University. The park was of special significance to the Gimghouls, because it was there that Peter Dromgoole may have been killed. The Order made a counteroffer, won, and spent the next eight years trying to pay for its new land. In 1923 the Order decided to sell its old lodge, a small house located at the corner of Rosemary and Boundary streets and build a new one. Battle Park was divided into thirds: one part was donated back to the University to be used exclusively as a park; one part was sold in lots to individuals for residential development; and one part was kept for the new Gimghoul lodge, a stone castle that still stands in the Historic Gimghoul District neighborhood. Nathaniel Cortlandt Curtis, New Orleans architect and Gimghoul alumnus, drafted the plans for the castle in 1924. In 1925 stone masons from the town of Valdese, near Morganton, N.C., were employed to help construct the castle, which was completed in 1926. The masons also built the Battle Seat, a rough semicircular bench made from the "freshman rock pile", a stone cairn that formed over time when students, typically freshmen, would walk to Point (Piney) Prospect and leave a stone on a rock pile that was started in the 19th century by President Battle.
Thomas F. Hickerson, professor of civil engineering and applied mathematics at the University and an expert in highway design, joined the Gimghouls in the early 1920s and assisted in planning the castle's construction. Until his death in 1967, he acted as custodian, advisor, and primary contact for the Order. Charlie Shaffer and Professor of English Lyman A. Cotten, Jr., succeeded Dr. Hickerson in these duties. Dr. Cotten joined the Gimghouls in the mid-1930s and was a trustee of the Order from 1952 until his death in 1991.
The Gimghoul District was declared historic in 1993; at that time the property on which the castle is located was owned by the Gimghoul Corporation and leased out yearly to the active Order. The castle grounds remain off limits to the public.
For more info:
http://www.ibiblio.org/bgreenwe/UNCMyths/gimghoul.html