Richard Southgate, Commonwealth of Kentucky Attorney, House Representative, US Senator.
Richard Southgate came to the area in 1795. He built a two room log cabin and later made it brick. The exact date of the construction of the brick building is unknown likely between 1814-1821. Prisoners of the War of 1812 were held here and put to work building some of the large mansions of the region.
- Harriet B Stowe (Writer, Abolitionist)
- Andrew Jackson (US President)
- Robert E Lee (Confederate General)
- US Grant (Union General and US President)
- Jefferson Davis (Confederate President)
- Abraham Lincoln (US President)
- ..many many more
Brigadier General John T. Thompson, inventor of the submachine gun known as the Tommy Gun along with many other military weapons.
Born on December 31, 1860 in Newport, Kentucky, Thompson grew up on a succession of Army posts and had decided on the military as a career by the age of sixteen. Thompson gained an appointment to the United States Military Academy, graduating in 1882.
With the beginning of the Spanish–American War, Thompson was promoted to lieutenant colonel and sent to Tampa, Florida as Chief Ordnance Officer under the top commander for the Cuban campaign, General William R. Shafter.
Later in 1914, World War I began in Europe, and Thompson was sympathetic to the Allied cause. Since the U.S. did not immediately enter the war, and because he recognized a significant need for small arms in Europe (as well as an opportunity to make a substantial profit), Thompson retired from the Army in November of that year and took a job as Chief Engineer of the Remington Arms Company. While with the company he supervised the construction of the Eddystone Plant in Chester, Pennsylvania, at that time the largest small arms plant in the world. It manufactured 1914 Pattern Enfield rifles for British forces, and Mosin-Nagant rifles for Russia.
Meanwhile
In 1908 the Knights of Columbus took possession of this building and built a ballroom in 1923.
Since the 1950s many music groups have gotten a start there.
How to Solve
The cache container is located at the following coordnates:
N 39° 05.66x W 084° 29.717
Determin the missing number(s):
- John Thompson gained appointment then graduated from West Point in 188x.
- Solve for x.
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