This is a cache that is in an area where at one time there used to
be a villiage of freed slaves. This is all that I can find about
the village online. And it is from the Town of Wallkills web site.
There used to be more about Guinea on the web a few years ago. But
I am unable to locate it.
This is from the Town of Wallkill Web Site. Guinea - an old
name applied to a settlement of black people, east of the Honey-Pot
farm. They had been the slaves of Col. McLaughry, of new Windsor,
and were freed by him, 1825 to 1828. This land was given to them by
the Colonel.
What I do know about Guinea is that over time as nature
reclaimed this area and the village became lost and forgotten. Back
in the early 90's the village was since discovered and a historical
marker now stands on the side of the road very near the village.
The land was extremely rocky and very hard to cultivate. As you
travel to this cache location you will see lots of old stone walls
and huge rock piles that the freed slaves dug out of the ground in
order to plant there crops. There is no trail leading to the cache
and a short bushwack is required. The cache is an ammo can filled
with trade items and a log book. If I can locate some more info
about Guinea, I will update this page.