Andovermarker Traditional Cache
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A Micro Cache near a roadside picnic table, the nearby town is full of history, take a few minutes and look around.
This is an easy cache, should be a quick grab.
This cache contains a log only, bring your pencil.
Over 150 years ago. Lars Paul Esbjörn, a Lutheran pastor from northern Sweden, and 146 Swedish pioneers left their homeland and sailed for seventy days on the crowded freighter, "Cobden" to New York. From there, more than 100 immigrants from Sweden continued their journey for another 26 days along waterways of the Hudson River, the Erie Canal, around the Great Lakes, where they met cholera, the "angel of death", to Chicago and then by canal boats to Peru, Illinois. From Peru, the baggage, the women, and the children were put on wagon trains to Andover, Illinois. The rest of the party went on foot. Due to illness, lack of food, and lodging, the majority left the group in Andover and went their separate ways. Only Pastor Esbjörn and handful of his faithful followers remained in Andover to build Jenny Lind Chapel, which became the "mother church" of the Augustana Lutheran Church and Augustana Synod. It later merged with the Lutheran Church in America. Today it is called the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
Please take a few minutes to explore small town Americana.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Qba'g or fghzcrq.