The Spawn of Johnny Appleseed Traditional Cache
Honeyfield: Looks Like the County Maintenance Department is Cleaning up the area where this is hidden. Decided to place a new cache in a new location Here. Thanks for all those who Found this Cache.
The Spawn of Johnny Appleseed
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The Spawn of Johnny Appleseed Geocache is a descendant of the BGTSCP - Blue Grass Tom Seed Cache Project. Waypoint GC13CEM
This cache is near the Munson Township Cemetery Prairie Nature Preserve in Henry County Illinois. There is a small parking area near the cache. If you visit the prairie area, please stay on the path. Pets are not allowed in the prairie.
This black soil prairie remnant is representative of the Western Section of the Grand Prairie Natural Division. Big bluestem, little bluestem and Indian grass are the dominant grasses with a variety of interesting and unique forbs including yellow star grass, Hill's thistle and one-flowered broomrape. Some historical accounts indicate that many years ago the cemetery was mowed for hay, but the prairie has remained undisturbed in recent years. It is now carefully managed with a combination of brush removal and prescribed burning.
Just as Johnny Appleseed left everywhere he traveled richer by promoting the cultivation of apples, so this cache will hopefully help spread geocaching in our part of Iowa, by getting more people involved in hiding caches! Let's all hide "7 in '07!"
As a quick historical note, Johnny (Chapman) Appleseed did his work in the Midwest, starting many nurseries which raised apple trees for new settlers to purchase. He was extremely liberal in terms of payment, but he got the seeds for free from local cider mills. The mill owners figured that more apple trees meant more apples and more business for their mills. Johnny constantly roamed, never settling down in one spot, and visited each nursery every one or two years to collect his earnings.
This is a larger than normal Honeyfield cache - yes, and it needs to be to hold the several containers that await your visit.
The Cache initially contained a log book, pencil, a Red Jeep Travel Bug, and several trade items. Like the cache’s namesake, it also contains several containers for placing new caches. Feel free to take one or more, but please hide and post them fairly quickly, so we can enjoy them. It's starting out with 2 decon containers, a couple of Hide-A-Key’s and eight smaller containers, too.
Please email me when your cache is published. On this page, I'll maintain a list of all the geocaches "descended" from this one with the name of the cache and your cacher name!
If you have hidden caches before, read no further. Select a cache container, and then go forth and multiply!
If you have never hidden a cache before, it is fun and easier than you think! There are great general discussions on the pages of Geocaching.com under the headings at the upper left of the screen entitled "Getting Starter" and "Hide and Seek a Cache."
Read this page for a good, short, understandable set of instructions for "Hiding Your First Geocache."
One of the main rules to observe is to obtain permission to hide your cache, and to include a line in your report to Administrator to that effect. In most cities and towns, call your local Park & Rec department or Conservation department in the case of a county park or area. The State and Corps of Engineers have their own rules. Many small towns and villages don't have rules on this, and so you should report "no cache policy" when you submit your cache for approval.
While caches may be hidden in many different types of geographical areas, always make safety the first concern, and reasonable accessibility to as many cachers as possible another concern. That said, have fun!
NOTE: Caches may be placed anywhere in the world; they do not have to be placed just in Illinois.
Congratulations on FTF and the first hide to Waterfallfrog.
Where the Buffalo Roam by Waterfallfrog & Toto1 (GC14EM0)
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