Redfield’s C.S. Bell #30 Traditional Cache

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BackpacknJack: This Geocache has been [ARCHIVED] by the cache owner.
I’m moving to Northern Arkansas so I will no longer be able to maintain my caches here in the Central and Southern parts of the State. I want to thank all the property owners and/or land managers for allowing me to place these. I’m very proud of our State and glad I have been a small part in showing off it’s parks, trails, small towns and backroads.
I hope everyone has enjoyed all the hunts - - and the 244 total finds.
This cache listing has been archived plus physically removed according to the Geocaching.com cache placement guidelines.
BackpacknJack

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Hidden : 1/2/2008
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

Displayed here is the original Redfield Missionary Baptist Church bell that was donated by the Dyson family some time before 1905. It’s a C. S. Bell #30 (Church Bell size). The Redfield Missionary Baptist Church was established in 1859 and this bell rang to announce services there, over 100 years ago.

History of the Bell: Charles Singleton Bell opened his foundry January 7, 1858 in just a frame building near the B & O Railroad Depot of Hillsboro, Ohio with only two employees and a weekly payroll of $7.00. Production of bells began in 1875 with approximately 1,000 per year and increased to over 20,000 bells per year by 1890. The bells were divided into two classes, Farm Bells weighing from 40 to 100 pounds each and School and Church Bells, known as "steel alloy bells", weighing from 150 to 1,000 pounds. School bells were size #26 and Church bells were size #30.
History of the Church: Involved in giving permission to place this cache here was a senior church member who helped ring this bell as a child and I thank him for sharing his story. The glue that held our fledgling American communities and townships together was the schools and the churches. Freedom of religion brought pioneers here by the boatloads (Including my own maternal ancestors) and C. S. Bell built a bell with a different sounding ring for each of these buildings. Church history link “Redfield M.B.C. History” To me this display looks like something from a Norman Rockwell painting, a picture is posted, and I hope you enjoy seeing it also.
The cache: You are looking for a magnetic nano with a tiny log. Please be respectful of the area and please sign the tiny log with initials only - no date needed. Please place it back exactly where you found it. PS. Also check out the neat looking huge oak tree just NW of here.
***** Congrats to FTF “Rhone“.*****
ArkGeocaching.org

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Decryption Key

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