CONGRATS TO N8TURELVR AND QUILTMAMA FOR FTF!
Huge moss-draped live oaks, sweet gums, hickory trees and stately pines cast their protective shade over the road, with limbs that meet in a towering canopy to provide cooling shade for the roads beneath them. Tallahassee has a long history of protecting trees, going back to the 1843 fire that destroyed the downtown area. When the fire was put out, the citizens made two decisions: to rebuild the buildings using brick and to plant more trees. As of March 2012, Tallahassee has nine canopy roads that provide a unique contribution to the city's southern charm.
There is a cache hidden in this series on each of the City's nine designated canopy roads and all nine are hidden in the same fashion. This cache is dedicated to a dedicated to a truly historic road - Old Centerville.
I recommend doing this one and Sunny Hill last and be prepared to get the bonus cache immediately afterward as they are all in the same remote (but beautiful) area. (Otherwise, you might be like, "ugh, I already went way out there! Darn you TallyCrucians!")
Old Centerville Road dates back to the early nineteenth century, shortly after the founding of Tallahassee and Thomasville, Georgia. The six mile long wagon road was part of another north-south route linking the antebellum plantations to the Tallahassee market and rail lines to St. Marks. Along Centerville Road, south of Old Centerville Road is the small community of Centreville in Leon County. While Centerville and the neighboring hamlet of Sunny Hill have long since disappeared, the unpaved section of Old Centerville Road still retains it's historical character.