Name: Bull Skin Trace (2)
Difficulty: 2 (Hiking Trails)
In Caesar's Creek State Park, OH
One box is in Clinton County and one in Warren County
Placed 7 December, 2001 by Flyfisher
geoflyfisher@yahoo.com

The Caesar Creek area was named for a black slave captured by the
Shawnee on a raid along the Ohio River. The Shawnee adopted Caesar
and gave him this valley as his hunting ground. Caesar lived here in
the 18th century during the time Blue Jacket was Shawnee war chief
and Caesar was said to have gone on many raids with him.

Before that, this area was the home of the prehistoric Adena and
Hopewell Indians. An Adena mound lies partially submerged in the
lake at the south end of the closed "Mound Road" you walk on for this
quest.

Later, three major historic tribes dwelled here: the Wyandot, the
Miami and the Shawnee.

The famous Bull Skin Trace follows the ridge that makes up the
eastern edge of the lake along mound road. Here, it followed what
was Mound Road until that road was closed during the building of
Caesar Creek Lake in the 1970s. It was an Indian route, then a
pioneer route, and finally became part of the Underground Railroad
which led runaway slaves to the many Quaker homesteads in the area.

Drive to this place along State Route 380 south from Xenia in Greene
County. Turn right at Center road toward the camping at Caesar's
Creek State Park. When you arrive at the stop sign, you are crossing
old Mound Road. Park at the small lot where Mound Road and Center
Road cross.

This letterboxing quest can be done on foot or with a mountain bike.
If you walk it will take about an hour. There are two letterboxes.

The first is a micro-box, a 35mm film container. It contains a
letterboxing set of instructions which doubles as the log. Also, of
course, there is a stamp in the container. Please use a small
personal stamp for this micro-box. Suggested maximum is one inch
diameter. The second letterbox is a standard size plastic letterbox.