This is the third in the History Detectives Series. The first three
in the series can be done indepedent of the last two. Information
from this cache will help in finding the fourth (Presidential
Estate) and the fifth (Professional).
History Detectives - JuniorA Bicentennial
History Detectives - JuniorB Barrel Makers
History Detectives - JuniorC Meeting House
History Detectives - Senior - Presidential Estate
History Detectives - Professional
The above coordinates take you to the starting location of a
letterbox hybrid type cache. There is parking nearby. Be prepared
to hike about a half hour to an hour (unless you're intrigued by
what you find and linger longer). Make sure to print these
directions and take them with you.
1. Sight and walk over the red bridge.
2. Follow the path that goes between the Manchurian Alder and Dawn
Redwood.
3. When you get to the knees of the Bald Cypress, sight the
vertical sculpture that is at the end of an old dam. Go to the
sculpture.
4. Sight the cobblestone walkway and follow it to its end.
5. Sight and walk to the "bench in the round." Please supervise
young children at this location.
6. Sight and walk to the end of the wooden bridge.
7. Descend the stone steps and walk to third sycamore tree.
8. Sight and walk to the other side of the pump house with white
pipes.
9. Walk to the green metal box near the stop sign.
10. Cross the road and walk up the sidewalk to the oldest looking
house in sight. There are two windows at the attic level.
11. If you're in front of the correct house, you'll be standing
next to a black lamp post with a speed limit posted.
12. Continue walking along the sidewalk until you reach a parking
lot entrance.
13. Sight the baseball backstop, and then look left to see two
power poles with diagonal yellow wire supports. Walk to the middle
of the two poles.
14. Follow the treeline/brushline to the stone wall. Continue to
the black metal entrance gate. I think you'll be impressed with
what is inside!
15. Write down the name above the black gate for later History
Detective research:
__________________________.
After you are done with this cache, go to a computer and type this
name into Google. You'll find a website run by a descendent of the
original land owner. Go to this website and see pictures of this
place before it fell down. Then record the middle name of the man
standing before the meeting house which you will need to complete
History Detectives - Professional.
16. Bushwack if necessary (seasonal) to the left of the gates on
the outside wall to the old door of the meeting house.
17. Standing in the doorway look to the left to see the remains of
an old window.
18. To find the cache, look down from the window and left along the
base of the wall behind a stone. Make sure to write down the
partial coordinates from the lid for the fourth cache in the
series, History Detectives - Junior Presidential Estate.