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Geocaching HQ Admin: We hope you enjoyed exploring Berea, KY. The Berea Chamber of Commerce GeoTour has now ended. Thank you to the community for all the great logs, photos, and Favorite Points over the last 7+. It has been so fun!

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Hidden : 10/3/2017
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

Thank You For Seeking Out This Geocache! It Is Part of the 2017-2018 Berea Chamber of Commerce GeoTour. To complete the GeoTour and earn your souvenir, visit www.BereaChamber.com to access your Expedition Guide and instructions.


You are looking for a standard geocache container. Should be an easy log.

By now, you may have read that you are walking along a location with deep history. This area is where Daniel Boone and his 30 "axemen" blazed the trail from Long Island on the Holston River (now Kingsport, TN), through the Cumberland Gap to Boonesborough, KY in the months of March and April 1775.

This was the first road ever into Kentucky, and west of the Appalachian Mountains. It was of enormous historical significance to the founding of Kentucky and the opening of the west. It became known as Boone Trace, and by 1792 when Kentucky became a state, approximately 200,000 settlers had passed along the Trace.

But why is the path called the John B. Stephenson Memorial Trail? Who is John? The property you are walking along belongs to Berea College. John was a President of Berea College. He was born in 1937 in Virginia, and earned his Bachelor degree there. He taught at a college in North Carolina, and pursued his doctorate in that state. Dr. John Stephenson joined the Sociology Department at the University of Kentucky in 1966, then became the Dean of UK Undergraduate Studies in 1970. In 1984 (at age 46) he was selected as the 7th President of Berea College. Under his leadership, Berea College's endowment doubled, and Berea College gained recognition, both nationally and internationally, for attracting gifted students from Appalachia and around the world. He founded the Brushy Fork Institute and the Black Mountain Youth Development Program, and in 1993 a curriculum based on liberal arts education was accepted. His wife, Jane Stephenson, founded the New Opportunity School for Women. In 1992, John discovered he suffered from leukemia and resigned in 1993. On December 6th, 1994, Dr. John B. Stephenson passed away at the local Berea Hospital.

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Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)