“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 begun
to grow with twenty four current hides in one Northwest Ohio
county, with four current caching teams, three each with A Man
and His 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). PLEASE BE
RESPECTFUL OF POSTED CEMETERY HOURS, TYPICALLY DAWN TO DUSK.
ANY FIND LOGS INDICATING NIGHT CACHING WILL BE DELETED
WITHOUT NOTICE.
Come with us now for a
virtual tour of this old burial ground via this page, then go out
and find the cache!
Dukes Cemetery (Photos by -Eleanor-)
OHIO SPIRIT QUEST
#024
”Hazzard County"
This is our twenty fourth hide across the
border in Ohio. Listen to what TMA has to say:
Welcome to Dukes Cemetery,
Blanchard Township, Hancock County, Ohio.
This is a very sprawling
cemetery, tucked off of US224, west of Findlay,
Ohio.
The Dukes Cemetery north of
the Blanchard is the oldest in the township, as two of George
Shaw's children were interred there in 1828 and 1829, and also the
wife of John Dukes in the latter year. George Shaw, Richard Dukes,
Mordecai and Enoch Haddox, Henry Epley, William Downing, William
Moffitt and James McClish, with their wives, also Mrs. Lydia Davis
and many other pioneers are buried in this graveyard. It is located
on a sand hill in Sections 15 and 16, lying partly in both, is
decorated with evergreens, and contains quite a number of nice
monuments.
The cache
container is a camo'd small tupperware. -- BYOP. Plenty of
parking. If you find a fallen US flag, please stick it back
in the ground. As always, please be respectful, and cache in, trash
out. Pray for our Soldiers, Marines, Sailors, CoastGuardsmen and
Airmen in harm's way. All photos by -Eleanor-.
Placed by a member of:
"Ohio Spirit
Quest" is brought to you by the following fellows of
GEOOSQ*: The SixDogTeam, THE SHADOW,
The Moop Along, -Eleanor-. If you are interested in spreading
the quest to your neck of the woods AND WOULD LIKE TO JOIN
US, email The Moop Along with caching resume and at least 25
current notarized references.
*Grand Exalted Order of
the Ohio Spirit Quest
