“INDIANA SPIRIT QUEST”
The Indiana Spirit Quest series of
geocaches will take you to a number of historic cemeteries
built by Hoosier Pioneers or other historic sites. In four years,
the quest has grown to over six hundred caches hidden in Indiana,
Ohio, Michigan, and Ontario and the hiders have grown to over
thirty cacher teams. Over 1,000 cacher accounts
had logged over 25,000 finds when we quit
counting.
(Photos by Lead Dog)
INDIANA
SPIRIT QUEST #612
"We
Never Sleep"
Welcome to Pleasant
View Cemetery in Kosciusko County.
The First "Private
Eye"
The Pinkerton National Detective Agency, usually shortened to
the Pinkertons, was a private U.S. security guard and detective
agency established by Allan Pinkerton in 1850. Pinkerton had become
famous when he foiled a plot to assassinate president-elect Abraham
Lincoln, who later hired Pinkerton agents for his personal security
during the Civil War. (At the time of Lincoln's assassination, his
security was no longer handled by Pinkerton, but by U.S. Army
personnel.) Pinkerton's agents performed services ranging from
security guards to private military contracting work. At its
height, the Pinkerton National Detective Agency employed more
agents than there were members of the standing army of the United
States of America, causing the state of Ohio to outlaw the agency
due to fears it could be hired out as a private army or
militia.
During the labor unrest of the late 19th century, businessmen
hired Pinkerton agents to infiltrate unions, and guards to keep
strikers and suspected unionists out of factories. The most well
known such confrontation was the Homestead Strike of 1892, in which
Pinkerton agents were called in to enforce the strikebreaking
measures of Henry Clay Frick, acting on behalf of Andrew Carnegie,
who was abroad; the ensuing conflicts between Pinkerton agents and
striking workers led to several deaths on both sides. The
Pinkertons were also used as guards in coal, iron and lumber
disputes in Illinois, Michigan, New York and Pennsylvania, as well
as the railroad strikes of 1877.
The company now operates as Pinkerton Consulting and
Investigations, a division of the Swedish security company
Securitas AB, although its government division is still known as
Pinkerton Government Services.
Civil War Vet
281 Soldiers named Pinkerton served in the
Army in the Civil War--199 for the Union and 82 for the
Confederacy. Of those 199, 53 were named John Pinkerton--38 fought
for the North, 15 for the south. Of those 38, 5 were from Indiana
Regiments. Our John Pinkerton was a member of the 74th Indiana
Infantry which traveled from Ft. Wayne to Kentucky, Tennessee,
Alabama, Georgia, S. Carolina, N. Carolina, Virginia and was
mustered out in Washington D. C. So it goes.
ENTER AS MANY PHOTOS AS
YOU WANT TO
FIND
LOGS ON THIS CACHE THAT INDICATE NIGHT CACHING WILL BE DELETED
WITHOUT NOTICE!
The cache container
is probably a pill bottle. BYOP. .The cache is not located
near a grave...Do not disturb monuments. If you find a fallen
US flag, please stick it back in the ground. You must sign the
cache log to claim a find. As always, please be respectful,
and cache in, trash out. XXX
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