Lee & Gould Furnace Only, Tennessee, United States
By
AbbysGrammy on 06-Sep-07. Waypoint GC15QK3
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A nice easy place to stop and then walked over to grab the required info. E-mail has been sent and now time to log.
Thanks for showing the area. Greetings from Australia...
Thanks for showing the area. Greetings from Australia...
Found this nice article about my earth cache in a historical newspaper I picked up recently.
On our 10 day road trip from Nashville TN to Las Vegas NV we stopped at this cache. Today it was a wonderfull day for traveling, the weather was beautifull sunny and warm in the mid 70s. We found the cache quick. We had fun.
Thank you for hiding this cache, greetings from Switzerland / Europe
Maudi
Thank you for hiding this cache, greetings from Switzerland / Europe
Maudi
We got off of the highway to see what "Bucksnort" was. Who could resist a name like that! As we were driving down the road I spotted the furnace and said "there HAS to be a cache there", and sure enough there was! My first Virtual cache, loved it!
My fiance and I are traveling to Adams, TN to see the Bell Witch Cave! He's not an avid cacher, but really enjoys the earthcaches when we road trip. I think he had a lot of fun at this one especially. We learned a lot about iron and furnaces; we recently watched an episode of Nova about the viking Ulfberht swords and the pioneering of 'crucible-steel'. This added in nicely with what we learned from the program. The sun was really bright so it was difficult to take a photo with the furnace visible without getting too much sun in our eyes.
That is a wonderfully well preserved furnace as compared to many I have seen. Thanks for the cache
Required answers sent to the owner! We really enjoyed this break in our journey! A definite favourite for the day as we headed from Nashville to Huntington. Certainly an interesting spot!! Thanks Abbysgrammy for this earthcache!!
98x, jd283 and I are caching our way home to Tatum, Texas from a Trail Life USA convention in Nashville, Tenn. we are trying to pick up different icons especially earthcaches. I liked this one and I will be leaving a favor point.. Answers on the way shortly.
This one was real cool. We stopped by here on our way home from Nashville after the Trail Life USA convention. SC11 sent the answers for all three of us. Thanks for bringing us here and teaching us something.
I dont have many earth caches but have really liked al and this one gets a favor pt. I wounder what the landscape looked like when this furnace was in service. sc11 sent answeres for the gang. tftE
Team Landshark is driving from Virginia to our home in Austin TX, grabbing caches along the way. Of special interest are (1) a cache every day for the August special, (2) caches in States where we don't already have a cache, and (3) EarthCaches! We discovered that we enjoy ECs more than we knew, so now we are on the lookout for them.
We were thrilled to have a chance to stretch out legs on an EC in TN, so we stopped to get this one. What a cool location! We talked about the economic implications of this site for at least 50 miles afterward.
Anyway, the photo is attached and the answers will be coming via email shortly.
Thanks for the fun from Austin TX!
We were thrilled to have a chance to stretch out legs on an EC in TN, so we stopped to get this one. What a cool location! We talked about the economic implications of this site for at least 50 miles afterward.
Anyway, the photo is attached and the answers will be coming via email shortly.
Thanks for the fun from Austin TX!
Fun way to get a rest on our trip when we were visiting from Germany. Picture shows Baccaroo and Alex10295 also. TFTC
Visited with MH18 and Alex10295. Answers sended by MH18 who also posted the picture below. TFTC
growing up in Birmingham, I am very familiar with the smells, sounds, and glow associated with furnaces. We had the Sloss Furnace and at night you could see the bright orange ingots. We had ACIPCO and you could see the orange pipes roll through the cooling furnaces. Nearby in Bessemer, we had Tannehill which was a civil war era furnace for producing iron for cannon barrels. Very interesting find.
This entry was edited by karatepunk816 on Monday, 08 July 2013 at 02:37:38 UTC.
This entry was edited by karatepunk816 on Monday, 08 July 2013 at 02:37:38 UTC.
I've wanted to stop and make the grab on this earthcache for several years, but something has always intervened. Today, I found the perfect time to make the grab while on my way to Nashville. I was astonished at the building here. Thanks for a great earthcache!
Driven by this exit a hundred times and didn't know this thing was around the corner. It's massive for the time period. Thanks for the Earth Cache! Feels like we just saw you guys the other day!
