Meek's Run Overlook Traditional Cache
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ATTENTION: A Letterbox is hidden nearby to this cache. It is hidden at a base of a tree that is shaped like a 'Y'. The letterbox has a Yellow container. This geocache is hidden in a BLACK LOCK AND LOCK. You must find the Black Lock and Lock container in order to log this cache.
Located in Moon Park, this location will give you a nice view of Meek's Run. Along your journey to this cache, you will notice old fence posts and small amounts of barb wire left over from long ago when the area likely had cattle and farms around.
When you gaze apon Meek's Run, remember the history of Moon Township:
The initial settlement of Moon Township was a direct result of the westward expansion of English settlers and traders that arrived in the Ohio Valley in the early to mid-18th century. During the French and Indian War large parcels of southwestern Pennsylvania lands were ceded to settlers and were, in some cases, occupied by land squatters. The ceding of these lands occurred either through early treaties or outright abandonment by the Iroquois Nation – the avowed owners of the land.
Indian settlements of the south bank of the Ohio River, such as they were at the time, typically relocated to more populous areas of the north bank in the current locales of Sewickley, Aliquippa and Ambridge.
On the southern banks of the Ohio, political disputes clouded the ways and means of appropriate settlement. Generally, land was apportioned to owners through grants by the Pennsylvania Land Office. However, some of the land encompassing what is now the Coraopolis Heights, Thorn Run valley, and Narrows Run valley were claimed through the process of “Tomahawk Improvements.”
Settlement processes were often convoluted because of differences among land policies of the several colonies claiming the land, specifically Pennsylvania and Virginia.
Each colony had its own means of either granting or restricting settlement opportunities. Regardless, the process of obtaining land in what is now regarded as “Moon Township” meant that each settler claiming land had to go through a multi-level process of application for grant, warrant of property and survey to ensure the physical boundaries of the property and patent approval where the applicant paid for the land and title was conferred.
In 1769, Henry Andrew Montour, an Indian interpreter who had provided service to the settlers during the war, was granted one of the first land patents for approximately 350 acres of what would later become the borough of Coraopolis and Neville (or Long) Island.
It wasn’t until 1773, when settler John Meek was awarded a 400-acre land grant above the river bottom and between the Thorn Run and Montour Run valleys that “Moon Township” was born.
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This cache includes an unopened cracker jack prize, a usb extension cord (new and tested), some toys, and other misc fun stuff for you and your kids. If you trade for the cracker jack prize, let us know what it was!
If you plan on visiting Moon Park, there are currently four geocaches. If you would like a nice hike, start here at Meek's Run overlook and proceed along the trail to find "The Elves Launch a Rocket to the Moon" and "Change for a Buck." Once you finish those two, finish your hike on the trail, it will take to the road, cross it and head towards "Pond Scum."
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