LIKE A HURRICANE!!!!! LbNA #30526 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | May 1, 2007 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Hurricane |
| County: | Putnam |
| State: | West Virginia |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | WVMtnHermit  |
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| Found by: | TrailingTisa |
| Last found: | Oct 28, 2009 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFFFFFar |
| Last edited: | May 1, 2007 |
This letterbox is a quick "drive by" located East Bound at the Rest Stop on I64 between the Hurricane and Teays Valley Exits.
The history of Hurricane:
It was a cool,misty morning in the year of 1774. A party of surveyors commissioned by George Washington was traveling down the Kanawha River. As the sun was slowly rising, cutting through the fog of this early spring day, they noted in their journal that all the trees at the mouth of the creek were bent in the same direction...and they called the location "the place of the hurricane".
The creek became known as Hurricane Creek because of this phenomenon, and by 1811, according to early Virginia maps, the town of Hurricane Bridge was located where Route 34 now crosses the creek near Rt.60.
Through the years, Hurricane Bridge became a stage coach stop and a thriving livestock market center. In 1873, completion of a single track railroad by Collis P. Huntington, connecting the waters of the Chesapeake and the Ohio River (a distance of 423 miles) caused the town to be slightly relocated, and the name changed to Hurricane Station. The railroad caused Hurricane to grow with the addition of hotels and stores, and in 1888 the town was incorporated as Hurricane.(History obtained through the Hurricane,WV website).
CLUE: beginning at the flagpole that is to the left of the building, turn and face the back of the parking lot. Take a reading of 210 degrees (facing the fourth light pole in from the highway entrance). Walk across the parking lot until you reach the pole.
From the pole, walk 42 paces, continuing 210 degrees until you reach the pine tree that began as one and now is three. You will find the box hidden in the fork of the tree, covered in pine needles. Be discreet in removing it, and in placing it back. Be sure to hide it well, so as to not be discovered by a passer by.
The history of Hurricane:
It was a cool,misty morning in the year of 1774. A party of surveyors commissioned by George Washington was traveling down the Kanawha River. As the sun was slowly rising, cutting through the fog of this early spring day, they noted in their journal that all the trees at the mouth of the creek were bent in the same direction...and they called the location "the place of the hurricane".
The creek became known as Hurricane Creek because of this phenomenon, and by 1811, according to early Virginia maps, the town of Hurricane Bridge was located where Route 34 now crosses the creek near Rt.60.
Through the years, Hurricane Bridge became a stage coach stop and a thriving livestock market center. In 1873, completion of a single track railroad by Collis P. Huntington, connecting the waters of the Chesapeake and the Ohio River (a distance of 423 miles) caused the town to be slightly relocated, and the name changed to Hurricane Station. The railroad caused Hurricane to grow with the addition of hotels and stores, and in 1888 the town was incorporated as Hurricane.(History obtained through the Hurricane,WV website).
CLUE: beginning at the flagpole that is to the left of the building, turn and face the back of the parking lot. Take a reading of 210 degrees (facing the fourth light pole in from the highway entrance). Walk across the parking lot until you reach the pole.
From the pole, walk 42 paces, continuing 210 degrees until you reach the pine tree that began as one and now is three. You will find the box hidden in the fork of the tree, covered in pine needles. Be discreet in removing it, and in placing it back. Be sure to hide it well, so as to not be discovered by a passer by.