Tar Heel LbNA #76707
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Add Location| Owner: | Silver Eagle
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| Plant date: | Nov 1, 2023 |
| Location: | 2713 Mt. Sinai Rd |
| City: | Chapel Hill |
| County: | Orange |
| State: | North Carolina |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Found by: | Not yet found! |
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| Last found: | N/A |
| Last edited: | Jul 28, 2024 |
Terrain Difficulty: Easy (slight slope, 1 mile RT)
Anyone from North Carolina is known as a "Tar Heel" and the nickname dates back to North Carolina’s early history, when the state was a leading producer of supplies for the naval industry. Workers who distilled turpentine from the sticky sap of pine trees and burned pine boughs to produce tar and pitch often went barefoot during hot summer months and undoubtedly collected tar on their heels. To call someone a “rosin heel” or “tar heel” was to imply that they worked in a lowly trade. During the Civil War, North Carolina soldiers flipped the meaning of the term and turned an epithet into an accolade. They called themselves “tar heels” as an expression of state pride. Others adopted the term, and North Carolina became widely known as the “Tar Heel State", and the University of North Carolina also adopted the nickname. You can find this box dedicated to the nickname at Johnston Mill Nature Preserve.
Directions:
The main entrance to Johnston Mill Nature Preserve is at 2713 Mt. Sinai Rd where you can park in the small lot.
Clues:
Walk past the kiosk on Robin's Trail to a jct and continue on trail to the right. Cross two small bridges and go up some wood steps to a jct with the Bluebird Trail. Go straight on it (not sharply right at blocked trail) for 85 steps as it curves right to a tree with a blue marker. Go left off trail 10 steps to a tree with two hollows. LB is at back base under a rock & leaves.
Silver Eagle's Aerie
Anyone from North Carolina is known as a "Tar Heel" and the nickname dates back to North Carolina’s early history, when the state was a leading producer of supplies for the naval industry. Workers who distilled turpentine from the sticky sap of pine trees and burned pine boughs to produce tar and pitch often went barefoot during hot summer months and undoubtedly collected tar on their heels. To call someone a “rosin heel” or “tar heel” was to imply that they worked in a lowly trade. During the Civil War, North Carolina soldiers flipped the meaning of the term and turned an epithet into an accolade. They called themselves “tar heels” as an expression of state pride. Others adopted the term, and North Carolina became widely known as the “Tar Heel State", and the University of North Carolina also adopted the nickname. You can find this box dedicated to the nickname at Johnston Mill Nature Preserve.
Directions:
The main entrance to Johnston Mill Nature Preserve is at 2713 Mt. Sinai Rd where you can park in the small lot.
Clues:
Walk past the kiosk on Robin's Trail to a jct and continue on trail to the right. Cross two small bridges and go up some wood steps to a jct with the Bluebird Trail. Go straight on it (not sharply right at blocked trail) for 85 steps as it curves right to a tree with a blue marker. Go left off trail 10 steps to a tree with two hollows. LB is at back base under a rock & leaves.
Silver Eagle's Aerie