The Barb of the Hook (MIA!) LbNA #4099 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | Doublesaj & Old Blue  |
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| Plant date: | May 3, 2003 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Gettysburg |
| County: | Adams |
| State: | Pennsylvania |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Found by: | Janila |
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| Last found: | Oct 18, 2003 |
| Status: | FFFr |
| Last edited: | May 3, 2003 |
BARB OF THE HOOK
**THIS IS AN ORPHAN BOX WHOSE 'PARENTS' LIVE IN CALIFORNIA.
As of June 2004, this box IS NOT FINDABLE!! Do not go looking for this box. The hurricane of 2003 made the area overgorwn to a point where you CANNOT GET TO THIS BOX. If we get back to the area, we will fix it but it's IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND right now!! (We're leaving the clue just so people won't wonder why they can't find the clue for a box they KNEW was there. . .)
ADDENDUM: We visited this site 2-27-05 WOW what a mess!! But we found the place where we put the box and it is definitely NOT there. Sorry.
Old Blue is a Civil War buff. I am one by osmosis. It happened when we visited Gettysburg the first time. Okay, the outskirts of the battlefield is a little commercial but, know this: driving or walking through that beautiful battlefield just about any time of the year (dogwood and redbud in the spring, autumnal spender in the fall) reading any of the 1200 monuments, walking the lines where so many gave their young lives, it WILL change you. You will feel “it” all around you. Here is the opportunity to feel the spirits which still reside there AND find a letterbox in the process.
This box is dedicated to John Otto of the 11th Indiana Battery, commander of same and Great-Great Grandfather of Old Blue.
Locate the monument at the corner of Taneytown Rd and Steinwehr Ave., and note the state for which the monument is dedicated. Next, go to the Confederate Avenue where Ewell’s Corp was positioned during the battle at Getysburg and find an information marker showing “The Barb of the Hook”. (The visitor’s center has maps and is a cool place to learn stuff! Or, you can look in any Civil War book under Ewell and find this information. Also, hiring one of the extremely knowledgeable guides for a couple of hours is money well spent!)
Proceed to the hill that IS the Barb and find the Greene monument. There are 2 trail leading down the hill from this point. Remember the state on the monument we told you to locate? Make your way down the correct trail to that state’s monument. Proceed on the trail to J.G. Palmer’s stone then continue over the fallen log (SEE ABOVE ** Probably over and under a FEW logs) and on down the hill (about 70 paces from the stone).
Just about at the bottom of this ravine, look to your right and you will see an outcropping of enormous, moss-covered rock. Tromp down and around said rock and up the other side. On the uphill and east side of this big rock the Lb is hidden well under 3 rocks. (Don’t forget to replace these rocks!)
Please contact doublesaj and Old Blue at doublesaj@aol.com to report your progress! Thanks!!
**THIS IS AN ORPHAN BOX WHOSE 'PARENTS' LIVE IN CALIFORNIA.
As of June 2004, this box IS NOT FINDABLE!! Do not go looking for this box. The hurricane of 2003 made the area overgorwn to a point where you CANNOT GET TO THIS BOX. If we get back to the area, we will fix it but it's IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND right now!! (We're leaving the clue just so people won't wonder why they can't find the clue for a box they KNEW was there. . .)
ADDENDUM: We visited this site 2-27-05 WOW what a mess!! But we found the place where we put the box and it is definitely NOT there. Sorry.
Old Blue is a Civil War buff. I am one by osmosis. It happened when we visited Gettysburg the first time. Okay, the outskirts of the battlefield is a little commercial but, know this: driving or walking through that beautiful battlefield just about any time of the year (dogwood and redbud in the spring, autumnal spender in the fall) reading any of the 1200 monuments, walking the lines where so many gave their young lives, it WILL change you. You will feel “it” all around you. Here is the opportunity to feel the spirits which still reside there AND find a letterbox in the process.
This box is dedicated to John Otto of the 11th Indiana Battery, commander of same and Great-Great Grandfather of Old Blue.
Locate the monument at the corner of Taneytown Rd and Steinwehr Ave., and note the state for which the monument is dedicated. Next, go to the Confederate Avenue where Ewell’s Corp was positioned during the battle at Getysburg and find an information marker showing “The Barb of the Hook”. (The visitor’s center has maps and is a cool place to learn stuff! Or, you can look in any Civil War book under Ewell and find this information. Also, hiring one of the extremely knowledgeable guides for a couple of hours is money well spent!)
Proceed to the hill that IS the Barb and find the Greene monument. There are 2 trail leading down the hill from this point. Remember the state on the monument we told you to locate? Make your way down the correct trail to that state’s monument. Proceed on the trail to J.G. Palmer’s stone then continue over the fallen log (SEE ABOVE ** Probably over and under a FEW logs) and on down the hill (about 70 paces from the stone).
Just about at the bottom of this ravine, look to your right and you will see an outcropping of enormous, moss-covered rock. Tromp down and around said rock and up the other side. On the uphill and east side of this big rock the Lb is hidden well under 3 rocks. (Don’t forget to replace these rocks!)
Please contact doublesaj and Old Blue at doublesaj@aol.com to report your progress! Thanks!!