“NORTH DAKOTA SPIRIT
QUEST”
The North Dakota Spirit Quest series of
geocaches will take you to a number of historic sites and
cemeteries built by North Dakota Pioneers. This series is an
offshoot of the Indiana Spirit Quest, founded by SixDogTeam. In
four years, the Spirit Quests have grown to over six hundred fifty
caches hidden in Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, North Dakota and Ontario
and the hiders have grown to over forty cacher teams.
Thousands of cacher teams had logged over
50,000 finds on the series.
(Photos by Big Bear TC)
NORTH DAKOTA SPIRIT QUEST
#1
"No Lake
Here"
Welcome to Lakeville
Cemetery in Grand Forks county
This cemetery is located in the Lakeville Township. The township
and the proposed community that was to be built in the area were
named for Stewart and Lumby Lakes which are two and half miles
northeast of this location.
The land was set aside by a warranty deed in 1885 for the town
of Lakeville. John Stewart, a homesteader, was the first to be
buried here. The cemetery was used for just over ten years. After
1900, most of those interned in the Lakeville cemetery were moved
to the Middle Grove Cemetery (see NDSQ #2) about three miles
east-southeast of here.
There are only two grave makers left at this location. The
larger of the two marks the graves of the mother and two small
children from the Bakken family, who died in a house fire on June
4, 1887. Also buried here is the first born of Charles and Lottie
Olson who died on June 22, 1889. Lottie Olson and her other
children are buried at the Cottonwood Farm Cemetery roughly three
miles north of here.
The inscriptions are written in Norwegian.
Mathilda Fredreke A Olson
Due to the 'tree' cover at the hide
spot, the coordinates are off by about ten
feet.
BE ADVISED: ALL THE ROADS LEADING TO
THIS CACHE SAVE THE ROAD FROM THE SOUTH ARE MINIMUN MANTENANCE
ROADS. CONDITIONS WILL VARY ACORDING TO THE WEATHER!
FIND LOGS ON THIS CACHE THAT INDICATE NIGHT CACHING
WILL BE DELETED WITHOUT
NOTICE!
The cache container is
a Lock-n-Lock. The cache is not located near a grave...Do
not disturb monuments or make rubbings. 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.
"The North
Dakota Spirit Quest" is brought to you by the following
fellows of GEONDSQ*: Totem Clan, Big
Bear TC and more to follow. If you are interested in
spreading the Quest to your neck of the woods and would like
to join us, email Totem Clan.
*Grand Exalted Order of
the North Dakota Spirit
Quest
The
spirits watch over your quest.