“OHIO SPIRIT
QUEST”
The Ohio Spirit Quest series of geocaches will
take you to a number of historic cemeteries built by Buckeye
Pioneers. This series is inspired by and a continuation of the
Indiana Spirit Quest caches created by Six Dog Team. In just over
three years, the SPIRIT QUEST has grown to over 550 caches, with
the hiding teams growing as well. The Ohio Spirit Quest has begun
to grow with seven current hides in one Northwest Ohio county, with
four current caching teams, three each with A Man and His
Dog... and one with A Woman and her Dog. Over 1,000 cachers have logged over 20,000 finds. One cache
machine found 111 ISQ caches in a single day (daylight hours only).
PLEASE BE RESPECTFUL OF POSTED CEMETERY HOURS,
TYPICALLY DAWN TO DUSK. ANY FIND LOGS INDICATING NIGHT CACHING WILL
BE DELETED WITHOUT NOTICE.
Come with us now for a
virtual tour of this old burial ground via this page, then go out
and find the cache!
Maple Grove Cemetery (Photos by -Eleanor-)
OHIO SPIRIT QUEST
#007
”Ohio Strikes Back Redux"
This is our seventh hide across the border in
Ohio. Listen to what TMA has to say:
Welcome to Maple Grove
Cemetery, St. Joseph Township, Williams County,
Ohio.
This is a wonderful
cemetery, tucked off the beaten path in Edgerton, Ohio. Maple Grove
Cemetery was established in 1858.
The first person buried
here in Maple Grove was William Preston, and afterwards all the
graves from the town of Denmark were moved here. A peaceful
veterans memorial is set in the Northwest corner of the cemetery,
shortly after you drive in. Please take a moment to walk through.
The back portion of Maple Grove, where you will find what you seek,
is technically Saint Mary's Cemetery, but no information is
available about why the different distinction. The two cemeteries
run concurrent. There might be an FTF Geocoin involved, I forget :)
TMA
Various Headstones
The cache container is a
camo'd small tupperware. -- BYOP. Plenty of
parking. If you find a fallen US flag, please stick it
back in the ground. As always, please be respectful, and cache
in, trash out. Pray for our Soldiers, Marines, Sailors,
CoastGuardsmen and Airmen in harm's way. All photos by
-Eleanor-.
Placed by a member of:
"Ohio Spirit
Quest" is brought to you by the following fellows of
GEOOSQ*: The SixDogTeam, THE SHADOW,
The Moop Along, -Eleanor-. If you are interested in spreading
the quest to your neck of the woods AND WOULD LIKE TO JOIN
US, email The Moop Along with caching resume and at least 25
current notarized references.
*Grand Exalted Order of
the Ohio Spirit Quest
