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Harry Truman - Summer White House LbNA #8157

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:Apr 23, 2004
Location:
City:Independence
County:Jackson
State:Missouri
Boxes:1
Planted by:WyldBlueberries
Found by: WallEWorld
Last found:Jul 12, 2011
Status:FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFa
Last edited:Apr 23, 2004
(7/2008: Sorry we're no longer to check or maintain our boxes. Check the latest status on LBNA prior to hunting it.)

Harry S. Truman was born on May 8, 1884 in Lamar, Missouri. To celebrate what would have been his 120th birthday, we have created the "Harry Truman" letterbox series. These four boxes celebrate various parts of President Truman's life.

This is the third box in the Harry Truman series.

"The Man From Indepence" lived in the house at 219 N Delaware Street in Independence, MO from 1919 until his death in 1972. He visited home often during his presidency from 1945-1953, when it was known as the "Summer White House". Independence also boasts Truman's Presidential Library and the Truman Farm Home.

This Box is located in Independence in the George Owens Nature Center at 1601 S Speck.

Directions to George Owens Park:

- Take I-70 to MO-291 N

- Go North for almost 3 miles until you reach 23rd street/MO 78. Turn right.

- Go East on 23rd street about 1 mile until you reach Speck Road.

- Turn left on Speck Road and go about a half mile.

- Turn right into park at 1601 S Speck. Park at building.

Directions to letterbox:

- Get out and enter park beside the building. Behind the building you will see a horseshoe pit. At the edge of the woods directly across the blacktop street you will find the entrance to the Butterfly Trail.

- Enter the trail, and take the first left. Go down this mulched path until you reach a clearing at the bottom of the hill.

- Across the clearing and past the fire pit, you will see a wooden footbridge.

- Cross the footbridge and go uphill. This is the "right wing" of the Butterfly Trail.

- Farther up the hill, you will choose between two paths. Go right to stay on the "right wing".

- Follow this path a long ways (about 200 paces if you insist on counting) until you see a tree with a "black locust" sign on your left. It is across from a natural gazebo of vines.

- The box is hidden at the base of this tree (opposite the path) under a rock and a brick.


Link to George Owens park:
http://www.ci.independence.mo.us/parksandrec/envprograms.stm