Logan House Hotel Traditional Cache

This cache has been archived.

Keystone: As the owner has not responded to my prior note, I am archiving this cache page.

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Keystone
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Hidden : 1/23/2008
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:

This urban cache can be accessed from the sidewalk. The sidewalks and streets are busy at times and stealth may be required. PLEASE DO NOT stop or park on the street closest to the cache.

The Logan House
This cache is located where the elegant Logan House Hotel stood back in the late 1800s. The hotel’s finest hour happened in almost complete secrecy. Nearly eighteen months into the Civil War, the Confederacy had won many decisive victories, Northern support for the war was weakening, and President Abraham Lincoln needed both moral and political support. To strengthen an embattled President Lincoln and coordinate Union war efforts, Pennsylvania Gov. Andrew Curtin convened the Conference for Governors of the Loyal States. With no reporters present and little press coverage afterward, fourteen governors gathered in Altoona for two days on September 24 and 25, 1862, just two days after Lincoln had issued his Emancipation Proclamation. There, the governors gave Lincoln a vote of confidence, and promised their support. “It was this conference…which more than any other thing,” the Altoona Mirror reported on its 50th anniversary, “strengthened Lincoln's hands in the darkest hour of the war period.”

PLEASE post pictures of cachers near the historical marker (not too far from the cache; can you find it?).

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