Indiana Spirit Quest # 504 - Howling Wolf Traditional Geocache

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Hidden : 7/29/2006
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:


"Indiana Spirit Quest"


ISQ - Except no others!


The Indiana Spirit Quest series of geocaches will take you to a number of historic cemeteries built by Hoosier Pioneers. In just two years, the quest has over five hundred caches hidden in Indiana, Ohio, Michigan and Ontario and the hiders have grown to over twenty five cacher teams, most of which of which are comprised of Dogs and their Humans.
Over 1,000 cacher teams have logged over 19,000 ISQ finds.


"Indiana Spirit Quest # 504"
"Howling Wolf"
"Eight Square Cemetery"
Porter County, IN



Photos by 501_Gang


Eight Square Cemetery was sometimes known as County Line Cemetery, Burdick Cemetery and even to others as Wolford Cemetery, because of all the different families buried there.



"Howling Wolf"


One of the first things you will notice as you enter the cemetery is the Howling Wolf sitting on the hill. He and his mate appears to be guarding the souls of the residents of this beautifully kept cemetery.




Eight Square gets it's name from an octagonal shaped building erected around 1840 that was used as a church and school until about 1914. The building was torn down in the late 1920's or early 1930's, but the eight (8) cornerstones which served as the building's foundation are still there.




In the past, the cemetery has been badly neglected and became overgrown. Several times, civic groups performed major clean-ups at the site. Then, in January 1998 both the LaPorte and Porter county commissions transferred their respective interests in the cemetery to Porter County's Pine Township.




An 1856 deed shows that the 1 ½ acre parcel was deeded "To the public of Porter and LaPorte counties, as long as it is used as a burying ground". Because of the wording of the deed, there was no clear line of responsibility for maintenance of the cemetery. It is now being maintained by the Pine Township Trustee's office.


* * * THIS IS A GENUINE INDIANA SPIRIT QUEST CACHE -- ACCEPT NO SUBSTITUTES! * * *


The cache container is a camouflaged, Decon container.

Please leave it at least as well concealed, if not better, than you found it.





FIND LOGS ON THIS CACHE THAT INDICATE NIGHT CACHING WILL BE DELETED WITHOUT NOTICE!


If you find fallen or worn US flags at the graves of veterans, please take a moment to upright or replace them. Dispose of worn US flags in a respectable manner. As always, no ISQ searching after dusk, and cache in, trash out. God Bless our troops and veterans.





DESPITE WHAT SOME NON-ISQ CEMETERY CACHE PAGES MAY SAY, YOU MAYBE SUBJECT TO ARREST IF FOUND IN A CEMETERY AT NIGHT IN INDIANA IN MOST ALL JURISDICTIONS.


"Indiana Spirit Quest" is brought to you by the following fellows of GEOISQ*:
SixDogTeam (Earthdog Patrick, Lead Dog, Wheel Dog) Kodiak Kid, THE SHADOW, Team Shydog, Rupert2, ~Mystery Dog~, Team Tigger International, bbSurveyors, Dover Duo, Los Xile, Prairie Partners, WilliamsFamGC, Bean Blossom Gang, Team Itchy & Scratchy, Wishbone 86, krisNjoe, Brooke Burke, Bikinibottomfeeders, Awsome Ev, 501 Gang, Lord Elwood, Doobies, Che K., Indgeodog.

If you are interested in spreading the Quest to your neck of the woods AND WOULD LIKE TO JOIN US, email SixDogTeam.


*Grand Exalted Order of the Indiana Spirit Quest

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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