Seneca Nickel LbNA #72359
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Add Location| Owner: | Silver Eagle
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| Plant date: | Oct 11, 2017 |
| Location: | Seneca State Forest |
| City: | Dilleys Mill |
| County: | Pocahontas |
| State: | West Virginia |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Found by: | Sherry Tolley |
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| Last found: | Jun 17, 2023 |
| Status: | FF |
| Last edited: | Oct 26, 2017 |
Terrain Difficulty: Easy (slight slope, 100 yards RT)
Status: alive
The Buffalo nickel is a five-cent piece designed by sculptor James Earle Fraser that was struck by the US Mint from 1913 to 1938 showing a Native American and an American bison. The profile of the Native American on the obverse side was not a portrait of any one man but a composite of three Native American chiefs: Two Moons, Chief of the Cheyenne Northern Reservation, Iron Tail, an Oglala Lakota chief, and John Big Tree of the Seneca Nation. Though Fraser later said that a Kiowa with the same name as John Big Tree was the third model, John claimed that his profile from his forehead to his lip had been used. I decided to believe John's claim and honor him with this letterbox placed in Seneca SF, named after the Indian tribe which once roamed the area.
Directions:
Drive north on WV 28 for about 2.5 miles and turn left into Seneca State Forest. Go past Seneca Lake to jct with Loop Rd and go right on it 0.3 mile then right up to the Fire Tower and park.
Clues:
Find green Fire Tower Trail sign and walk down into woods on it 100 steps. Go right 15 steps off trail to two trees next to each other with big dead branch between them. LB is between their bases under a rock and leaves.
Hike length: 0.1 miles
Status: alive
The Buffalo nickel is a five-cent piece designed by sculptor James Earle Fraser that was struck by the US Mint from 1913 to 1938 showing a Native American and an American bison. The profile of the Native American on the obverse side was not a portrait of any one man but a composite of three Native American chiefs: Two Moons, Chief of the Cheyenne Northern Reservation, Iron Tail, an Oglala Lakota chief, and John Big Tree of the Seneca Nation. Though Fraser later said that a Kiowa with the same name as John Big Tree was the third model, John claimed that his profile from his forehead to his lip had been used. I decided to believe John's claim and honor him with this letterbox placed in Seneca SF, named after the Indian tribe which once roamed the area.
Directions:
Drive north on WV 28 for about 2.5 miles and turn left into Seneca State Forest. Go past Seneca Lake to jct with Loop Rd and go right on it 0.3 mile then right up to the Fire Tower and park.
Clues:
Find green Fire Tower Trail sign and walk down into woods on it 100 steps. Go right 15 steps off trail to two trees next to each other with big dead branch between them. LB is between their bases under a rock and leaves.
Hike length: 0.1 miles