“NORTH DAKOTA SPIRIT
QUEST”
The North Dakota Spirit Quest series of
geocaches will take you to a number of historic sites and
cemeteries built by North Dakota Pioneers. This series is an
offshoot of the Indiana Spirit Quest, founded by SixDogTeam. In
four years, the Spirit Quests have grown to over six hundred fifty
caches hidden in Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, North Dakota and Ontario
and the hiders have grown to over forty cacher teams.
Thousands of cacher teams had logged over
50,000 finds on the series.
(Photos by Big Bear TC)
NORTH DAKOTA SPIRIT QUEST
#3
"Prairie
Sailors"
WELCOME TO NESS
LUTHERAN CEMETERY in Grand Forks County
A short time after the settlement of Grand Forks County had
begun; the community of Mekinock was founded. Along with their
farmhouses and barns, the settlers built stores, schools, and
churches. One of the first of these was the Ness Lutheran Church.
Founded in 1877 the congregation has met at this location ever
since.
Shortly after the church was built the grounds surrounding the
building were used as a cemetery. Some of the first markers date to
the early 1880’s. At least one dates to before 1877. Often the
pioneer graves would be move from the homestead or other burial
sites to a churchyard once it was built.
The cemetery contains the graves of several veterans. Two such
veterans are Eugene Warren Ross and George Warren Ross. Eugene Ross
served in the Navy during the World War I, while his son, George
Ross, served in the Navy during World War II. Here on the Dakota
Prairie two sailors, father and son, rest side by side.
Father
and Son
This is an active
congregation. Do not try to find this cache
on Sunday mornings!
FIND LOGS ON THIS CACHE THAT INDICATE NIGHT CACHING
WILL BE DELETED WITHOUT
NOTICE!
The cache container is
Lock-n-Lock. The cache is not located near a grave...Do
not disturb monuments or make rubbings. If you find a fallen
US flag, please stick it back in the ground. You must sign the
cache log to claim a find. As always, please be respectful,
and cache in, trash out.
"The North
Dakota Spirit Quest" is brought to you by the following
fellows of GEONDSQ*: Totem Clan, Big
Bear TC and more to follow. If you are interested in
spreading the Quest to your neck of the woods and would like
to join us, email Totem Clan.
*Grand Exalted Order of
the North Dakota Spirit
Quest
The
spirits watch over your quest.