Brown's Berry Patch Traditional Cache
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Brown's Berry Patch in Orleans County
You are looking for an ammo can filled mostly with Orleans County related goodies. This is the second of ten planned caches placed around Orleans County by county employees.
Brown's Berry Patch is part of what has been a family farm since 1804. Some history of the location:
* 1747 Elijah Brown, son of Benjamin, born in Rhode Island
* 1774 Elijah Brown married Bathshua Sheffield on Fisher's Island off of Connecticut. They raised livestock on the 3x9-mile island and traded with the West Indies with their own ship.
* 1776 During the Revolutionary War, the British took all of their livestock and supplies and burned the Brown family home and barns. The Browns moved to New London, Connecticut; Dresden, and Sodus, New York over the next 28 years or so.
* 1804 Elijah bought a 100-acre farm along the Oak Orchard River on the south shore of Lake Ontario near what is now Waterport in Orleans County, NY. Elijah died while moving his family by boat to the new farm. His gravesite on the farm was the first marked grave in Orleans County. Bathshua and her five sons and seven daughters settled the farm in the unbroken wilderness. Elijah, Jr. planted the first apple trees.
* 1812 During the War of 1812, British war ships patrolled the coast of Lake Ontario. The same British captain who plundered the Brown's farm in 1776, very foolishly was captured on the banks of the Oak Orchard River. He was brought to Bathshua Brown, the matriarch of the area, and subsequently let go by her to sail away and not bother this river again.
Today it continues to be a working farm and has ice cream and a petting farm as well.
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