GCJEWQ From here, you can see forever (Traditional Cache) in Ohio, United States created by gamesnight

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Hidden : 5/16/2004

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This is a quiet spot in the middle of Avon, Ohio that is rarely visited. In fact, in the year that I have lived near here, I have never seen anyone visiting this spot. There are markers here that date back nearly 200 years. The hours are dawn till dusk. You're looking for a 35mm film container. Please bring your own pencil with you.

[The image above] shows the great cemetery mound at Avon Center, Ohio [circa 1940] . This mound is in Lorain County and located only a few miles south of Lake Erie. It was made and used for burials by the Eries and later, as white men settled here, it became the cemetery of the white man. The number of monuments will attest to how long ago it became a cemetery.

The author recently saw skulls of the Eries that were taken from this mound by the sexton of the cemetery, back in 1900. Mr. Walker, a local farmer, was the sexton who found these remains. He also found some beads and arrows but these he had lost several years before our interview. This man also stated that many of the skulls were so badly decayed that he paid no attention to them. He saved some that were perfect and well preserved.

The shape and size of this mound is confusing because of the many monuments covering it. We judge the entire mound covers well over half an acre of ground as it appears today. Notice there is much more to the cemetery than than located on the mound itself. As far as we were able to find out, no excavations of an archaeological nature have ever been undertaken on this mound; therefore we offer it to the reader with the little information we were able to gather from the sexton of the cemetery.

The country surrounding Avon was rich in Erie remains. Many burials and campsites were found in the vicinity. French Creek flows through this section, and is no doubt, one of the reasons why ancient man chose this territory for his home. The creek formed a waterway on which he could travel with his bark canoes or dugouts. From this stream he took many fish and mussles for food. Along its banks he shot many animals, which furnished him with flesh for food and hides and furs for clothing. Such a setup was ideal for early man.

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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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