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[CT1976]

Any KGC cache legends in Kentucky?

 

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[franklin]

Search the areas where John Hunt Morgan ans his outfit roamed. There are KGC sites in his areas but exactly where I can not say. I do know where one is in Tennessee.

 

[Honest Samuel]

Welcome to our website. Good hunging and good luck.

 

[CT1976]

Brentwood?
Btw, thank you, sir.

 

[franklin]

Brentwood?
Btw, thank you, sir.

No the one I have is not in Brentwood. All though there may be a large KGC Cache at Brentwood?

 

[Ol' Kentuck]

This article says there were 8000 members in Kentucky alone in 1861. Bound ta be some out there somewhere, ya reckon?

https://www.nytimes.com/1861/06/05/archives/the-k-g-cs-unmasked.html

 

[Rebel - KGC]

COULD BE!

 

[L.C. BAKER]

I believe if there is anything there it would have to be a small cache left for the sentinels that guarded what was eventually moved from that state before the end of the Civil War.
"Kentucky was a border state of key importance in the American Civil War that officially declared its neutrality at the beginning of the war, but after a failed attempt by Confederate General Leonidas Polk to take the state of Kentucky for the Confederacy, the legislature petitioned the Union Army for assistance."

Just my 2 cents

L.C.

 

[Terry Soloman]

Farms outside Bowling Green. Look up "Chapman; Rowe; and Goodwin." Good luck!

 

[Rebel - KGC]

No the one I have is not in Brentwood. All though there may be a large KGC Cache at Brentwood?

Will "THE CIRCLE" be unbroken...? "THE CIRCLE" IS UNBROKEN!

 

[Rebel - KGC]

Check out: CONFEDERATE KNIGHTS & the BRENTWOOD (Tenn.) Cache... HH! Good Luck! Have FUN!

 

[Ryano]

Speaking of the Brentwood cache.. where did that infamous map of the large underground cache first appear ? In the "Black Book" ?

 

[franklin]

Speaking of the Brentwood cache.. where did that infamous map of the large underground cache first appear ? In the "Black Book" ?

You got it====Jesse James III. Worth about as much as the book cost, maybe not?

 

[Rebel - KGC]

Speaking of the Brentwood cache.. where did that infamous map of the large underground cache first appear ? In the "Black Book" ?

Map...?

 

[franklin]

Map...?

These are not very good copies, maybe someone has a better copy?

 

[Ryano]

Yep, thanks Franklin - that's the one !

Here's a very nice high resolution D.G. Beers 1878 Map of Williamson Co (what your Brentwood map is excerpted from):

Williamson County, Tennessee, 1878 :: Maps at the Tennessee State Library & Archives

 

[franklin]

Thank you. Do you happen to know if there is any anthracite coal mines in the surrounding area?

 

[Rebel - KGC]

THANKS!

 

[Ryano]

...any anthracite coal mines in the surrounding area?

If there are they are probably lost to the pages of history and need researching. Appalachia was where coal was dug, at least on a large scale. The central TN region has long history of iron, phosphate, lead refining .. White Bluff(s) and its blast furnaces required lots of coal and there are other furnaces in the 19th c. historical record in Williamson and Davidson Co too... was the coal sourced locally or by rail from KY or Knoxville .. ?

I checked the USGS mine locator - no luck, googled up the wazoo etc etc .. the closest actual coal mine to the Nashville region is Wilder, TN , about midway between Knoxville and Nashville. It opened in 1903 and closed in the 30's after a union strike disaster. Maybe Jesse buried it there ?

Here's an early 20th c Geology survey that has locations of 19th c mines but they are mostly "brown ore" deposits (pg 58) .. history of mining in Dickson area (pg 86)
https://pubs.usgs.gov/bul/0795d/report.pdf

 

[Rebel - KGC]

"Brown Ore"...? Pyrite; Fool's Gold...?