The
historic little town of
Stoverdale
is
located between Hershey and
Middletown
.
Its name comes from Edward and Mary
Shenk Stover, who in 1872 built
the
United
Brethren
Church
, a
church campground and a school in honor of their son, Edward Jr.
who died in 1870 when he was just 21 years old.
The
school is said to have been in operation until 1925. The church has
since changed to United Methodist. The summer church camp thrived
for about 20 years. After it stopped being used for its active
prayer festivities, it evolved into summer fishing cottages and
around WW II, people began to settle there permanently. The
campground was built as a summer refuge, not as a permanent
residence and unfortunately much of the required infrastructure for
a year round community was not in place.
In
August of 2004 a great deal of destruction was done by a tornado.
With repair being necessary after the storm, the need for
improvements to the village’s infrastructure came back to haunt the
community. Those costs proved to be insurmountable and the sale of
the land was announced as imminent. The entire area now waits to be
swallowed up by developers’ building plans. The Deer Run
subdivision was the first to appear in place of camp ground lands
and there will be more. That’s how we find the little town
today.
We
brought you here to find a geocache so
you could take note of historic little
Stoverdale – its quaint school house,
beautiful church and cemetery – who knows, maybe it can be possible
to “Save Historic Stoverdale”… for more
information, visit
http://stoverdale.com/
To
claim this cache:
-
Find the cache
- Sign the log
- Post your photo at the school house
This
is part of our Perryzip Crew - Geocache Trail
(PZC-GT).
In
an attempt to share neat places and things, we’ve come up with this
trail around the PA capital region. Please be sure to make note of
the single digit number written on the log. When you've completed
the trail and combine the numbers in cache numerical order, you'll
have the coordinates to the Unknown Cache 'City of Harrisburg -
PZC-GT #16 (THE FINAL)'. Have fun!
*This cache was hidden as a replacement for the original #11.
Although the code is the same, this is a brand new cache.