The Long King Letterbox LbNA #46610
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Add Location| Owner: | Boots Tex
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| Plant date: | Apr 15, 2009 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Livingston |
| County: | Polk |
| State: | Texas |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Found by: | Boots Tex |
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| Last found: | Dec 9, 2024 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFO |
| Last edited: | Dec 9, 2024 |
This box, which has been missing for a while, has been replaced located in a different place, the clues have been corrected to lead you to the new location, effective December 8, 2024.
Long King, principal chief of the Coushatta Indians (the name means “White Cane People”) in Texas during the first three decades of the 1800s, was referred to as the mingo or chief above all other Coushatta chiefs in Texas. He lived in Long King's Village, the middle village of the three most significant villages the Coushattas established in Texas. Long King's Village was in what is now Polk County near the junction of Tempe Creek and Long King Creek, about two miles east of Lake Livingston State Park. (Tempe was a later Chief of the Coushatta.) If you drive from here to Livingston on FM 1988 you will cross Tempe Creek, then Long King Creek, as well as the Long King Trace, identified by a small blue and white sign on the right side of the road. On September 27, 1830, José Francisco Madero was appointed general land commissioner of Texas. On January 14, 1831, he arrived in Texas and announced that he would begin issuing land titles in the Trinity River area. In April 1831 he took a census of the Alabama and Coushatta Indians in Texas. In his report on the census he wrote that Long King was the principal chief of the Coushattas. In 1882 L. W. Currie, Presbyterian missionary to the Alabama-Coushatta Indians, wrote in a report to the Office of Indian Affairs that the Polk County Indians informed him that Long King had served as a Coushatta chief. Long King Trace, Long King Creek, and Long King's Village were all named for this prominent Coushatta chief; all three landmarks are mentioned frequently in the field notes of original Polk County land surveys. Though the date of Long King's death is not available in Alabama-Coushatta tribal records, he probably died around 1838, since after this year there is no mention of Long King as principal chief of the Coushattas. Colita emerged as Long King's successor, but that’s another story.Note that the image on the stamp and logbook is that of the modern Chief of the Coushattas, Oscola, dressed in traditional dress, since there are no photos of Long King. This box was placed with the permission of park personnel and is properly permitted.
Directions:
This box is located at Lake Livingston State Park, in Polk County, Texas, which is located 1 mile south of the city of Livingston and 75 miles north of Houston. Pay fee and get map at Entrance Station.
To the box:
Drive to the first intersection and turn right. Park in the parking lot for the Pineywoods Nature Trail (the boardwalk). Go back to the road and cross to the Trinity Trace Trail. From the end of the footbridge, take 22 steps and look to your left for a large pine tree, about 10 steps off the trail. The box is on the back side of the tree at its base, covered with rocks and the usual forest debris.
Long King, principal chief of the Coushatta Indians (the name means “White Cane People”) in Texas during the first three decades of the 1800s, was referred to as the mingo or chief above all other Coushatta chiefs in Texas. He lived in Long King's Village, the middle village of the three most significant villages the Coushattas established in Texas. Long King's Village was in what is now Polk County near the junction of Tempe Creek and Long King Creek, about two miles east of Lake Livingston State Park. (Tempe was a later Chief of the Coushatta.) If you drive from here to Livingston on FM 1988 you will cross Tempe Creek, then Long King Creek, as well as the Long King Trace, identified by a small blue and white sign on the right side of the road. On September 27, 1830, José Francisco Madero was appointed general land commissioner of Texas. On January 14, 1831, he arrived in Texas and announced that he would begin issuing land titles in the Trinity River area. In April 1831 he took a census of the Alabama and Coushatta Indians in Texas. In his report on the census he wrote that Long King was the principal chief of the Coushattas. In 1882 L. W. Currie, Presbyterian missionary to the Alabama-Coushatta Indians, wrote in a report to the Office of Indian Affairs that the Polk County Indians informed him that Long King had served as a Coushatta chief. Long King Trace, Long King Creek, and Long King's Village were all named for this prominent Coushatta chief; all three landmarks are mentioned frequently in the field notes of original Polk County land surveys. Though the date of Long King's death is not available in Alabama-Coushatta tribal records, he probably died around 1838, since after this year there is no mention of Long King as principal chief of the Coushattas. Colita emerged as Long King's successor, but that’s another story.Note that the image on the stamp and logbook is that of the modern Chief of the Coushattas, Oscola, dressed in traditional dress, since there are no photos of Long King. This box was placed with the permission of park personnel and is properly permitted.
Directions:
This box is located at Lake Livingston State Park, in Polk County, Texas, which is located 1 mile south of the city of Livingston and 75 miles north of Houston. Pay fee and get map at Entrance Station.
To the box:
Drive to the first intersection and turn right. Park in the parking lot for the Pineywoods Nature Trail (the boardwalk). Go back to the road and cross to the Trinity Trace Trail. From the end of the footbridge, take 22 steps and look to your left for a large pine tree, about 10 steps off the trail. The box is on the back side of the tree at its base, covered with rocks and the usual forest debris.