I have fancied putting togehter a geo art for a while now & being as the old series is a bit tired, had a chat with USAndy to do this re-run. This is a one of a series of 50 puzzle caches that will take you around the town of Thornbury. All puzzles are so easy to solve we have made the D rating a 1 on most, as the hides are easy to find as well.
All the caches are to do with the USA and will give you info on all the states.
To help you navigate the public footways around this area, the Explorer 167 map will be helpful.
The whole walk in one go will be no less than 12 miles, depending on other caches you can grab on the way round. There is a bonus cache as before.
Please see number 1 USA Mega series re-run #1; Alabama for car parking, if you need it.
- Origin of name: From an Iroquoian word “Ken-tah-ten” meaning “land of tomorrow”
- Capital: Frankfort
- Largest city: Louisville
- Population: 4,395,295 (2013 est) Ranked 26th in the US.
- Nicknames: Bluegrass state
- Highest point: Black mountain, 4,145 ft
- Admission to union: June 1st, 1792 (15th)
- State motto: United we stand, divided we fall
- State song: My old Kentucky home.
- State tree: Tulip Poplar
- State flower: Goldenrod
- State bird: Cardinal
- Area: 40,409 sq mi. Ranked 37th in the US.
Did you know……...
1) The Kentucky Derby is the oldest continuously held horse race in the country. It is held at Churchill Downs in Louisville on the first Saturday in May.
2) Mammoth Cave is the world's longest cave and was first promoted in 1816, making it the second oldest tourist attraction in the United States. Niagara Falls, New York is first.
3) Kentucky is the state where both Abraham Lincoln, President of the Union, and Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy, were born. They were born less than one hundred miles and one year apart.
4) Bluegrass is not really blue--its green--but in the spring bluegrass produces bluish purple buds that when seen in large fields give a blue cast to the grass. Today Kentucky is known as the Bluegrass State.
5) More than $6 billion worth of gold is held in the underground vaults of Fort Knox. This is the largest amount of gold stored anywhere in the world.
To solve this one name the state Flower.
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