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Cedar Creek LbNA #24032 (ARCHIVED)

Owner:Hikinghams
Plant date:Jul 25, 2006
Location:
City:Middletown
County:Frederick
State:Virginia
Boxes:1
Found by: cat people
Last found:Jul 3, 2010
Status:FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFaa
Last edited:Jul 25, 2006
Take 81S to exit 302 follow signs to Route 11 S. Go thru Middletown- will pass Chevron/Family Country Market on outskirts of town. You will then see a battlefield open up on the right.
http://www.cedarcreekbattlefield.org/reenact/photos.php
(The best view is late afternoon/sunset)Park in front of the historical marker & flags. From the sign answer the following questions.

Date of battle:

Time that General JB Gordon began Confederate attack:

Standing at this sign go 40 degrees & walk/count 8 telephone poles. From the 8th telephone pole walk ----- steps (Use the first & last numbers from the time that JB Gordon began attack) to the vertical yellow line (over 6ft tall) Turn to the left - box is located near the largest base near fenceline.

This battlefield overlooks the Bellegrove Plantation.(Not the white house in the middle of the battlefeld.) The entrance is the first road on the right past the battlefield. They offer tours/events/store/reenactments
ttp://www.civilwarfieldtrips.com/cedarcreek/bellegrove.html
http://www.civilwarfieldtrips.com/cedarcreek/index.html