Box name: Sacred Symbol
Difficulty: Easy
Location: Jackson County, Ohio
Date planted: 4/26/2003
Sacred Symbol
Nestled in the wooded hills of Jackson County, Ohio is a quiet little
park administered by the Ohio Historical Society. It protects an
exposed slab of sandstone where ancient Native Americans carved what
are believed to be sacred symbols. (Interesting that nobody ever
thinks these things are just prehistoric graffiti huh?) It's a
lovely, quiet little place that most folks never are aware of or
think to go to so we decided it would be a good place to hide a
sacred symbol of our own. If you follow the clues and look
carefully, you can add our sacred symbol to your collection.
Go to the Leo Petroglyph State Memorial that is located about
4 miles off US Route #35 west of Jackson. The turn off US Route #35
is marked with brown and white directional signs and is about 4 5
miles from the city of Jackson. Just follow the signs to the quaint
little park that has a timber and stone shelter over the carvings.
Unfortunately, vandals are taking a toll on the carvings but it's
still cool to look at them and think that they've been there 700 to
1000 years. After you've looked at the old sacred symbols, go down
the stone steps on the south side of the structure to the Nature
Trails sign to begin your search for our sacred symbol. Go south
down the trail into the ravine (Be careful the trail is steep and
slippery the first few yards!) Don't take the side trail to the
first waterfall stay to the left on the main trail until you reach
the Hemlock Grove sign. From the sign, walk about seven paces (2
steps = 1 pace) on a bearing of 190. You should be at a large
fallen tree lying across a large rock. Look under the tree where it
crosses the rock on the uphill side under a couple of small rocks and
some leaves. There you should find our sacred symbol. Please bring
a stamp pad and a pencil with you! After you've found it, send us an
email to bigguy_45640@yahoo.com and let us know if it needs any
attention. So far as we know, this was the first letterbox planted
in Jackson County!