"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 grown to over 60 in Ohio, with five current caching teams, three each with A Man and His Dog, one with a Couple and Their 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).
Come with us now for a virtual tour of this burial ground via this page, then go out and find the cache!
Harpersfield Cemetery
Harpersfield Township, Ashtabula County, Ohio
OHIO SPIRIT QUEST #79
Col Alexander Harper
Alexander Harper was born in Middletown, Connecticut in 1744. In the year 1770 he took a patent of a Large tract of land and moved to Harpersfield, Delaware County, in the state of New York. In 1777 he received a captain’s commission in a regiment of rangers commanded by Col. John Harper, the regiment having been raised by the direction of Gov. Clinton. He was afterwards promoted to the rank of colonel, and served with distinction in the War of the Revolution. On June 28-1798 he moved with his family to what is now Harpersfield, Ashtabula County, Ohio and settled there, dying on the tenth of September of the same year. This section of the country was then a wilderness, and Col Harper gave the township of Harpersfield it’s name. It is said that soon after landing he placed his staff in the ground and dedicated a portion of land as a cemetery, and he himself was the first to be buried there: be being the first white person buried in the Western Reserve, whose grave can be identified.
Elizabeth Harper
Congrats to CrazyKC F.T.F.!!!
The cache container is a regular sized Moops Container.
If you find a fallen US flag, please stick it back in the ground. As always, please be respectful, and cache in, trash out.
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"Ohio Spirit Quest" is brought to you by the following fellows of GEOOSQ*: The SixDogTeam, THE SHADOW, The Moop Along, -Eleanor-, TeamMina, Handyman & Fam. If you are interested in spreading the Quest to your neck of the woods AND WOULD LIKE TO JOIN US, email Handyman & Fam with caching resume and at least 25 current notarized references.
*Grand Exalted Order of the Ohio Spirit Quest*
