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!! Exciting New Cache Series!!
"COLORADO SPIRIT
QUEST"
The Colorado
Spirit Quest is a series of Caches placed by many individuals, near
cemeteries and historic sites in hopes of paying respect to the
many pioneer ancestors that have 'walked' before us.
There are hundreds of
cemeteries in the rural and mountain communities across
Colorado. This series will introduce you to many of
them.
The cache
pages will provide a virtual history tour of the cemeteries and
tombstones.
COLORADO
SPIRIT QUEST is not affiliated with any other 'Spirit Quest'
group. Special thanks and credit are given to SixDogTeam who
started the Indiana Spirit Quest in 2004. The idea has rapidly
spread into many states.
The CSQ
endeavor is an enormous and relentless task. It cannot be
accomplished by just one or two people. This project will
only flourish if there is a multitude of volunteer cachers
willing to place these caches.
After
locating the cache container, take some time to reflect back on the
lives of those pioneers and the effort it took to make Colorado
such a great state.
If you are interested in
joining the "Walking Through History Clan" contact may be made by
sending an e-mail to the owner of "Colorado Spirit Quest #1 -
Mountain
Passage". Use the 'Send Message" link at the center of the
page of their profile.
Each person that places a CSQ cache is responsible for its
maintenance.
REMEMBER:
If
you are APPREHENSIVE about cemeteries - AVOID this
series.
Thanks to
Clan Members: Greasepot, Taylorgeotracker, Ivy Dog Parents, Team
Boogity3, and Grand High Pobah, CDirtO, FulComers, Lady Coot,
Isisfan and Boborr 80909. New Clan members are always
Welcome
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FOXTON CEMETERY
also known as FOXTON JUNCTION CEMETERY and
BEAVER RANCH CEMETERY
The Foxton Cemetery is located south of Conifer, Colorado
on
the west side of U.S. Highway 285.
The Foxton Cemetery was established as a community cemetery in the
mid to late 1870's and the first burial, according to gravestone
transcriptions, appears to have been in 1879. The last burial here
was in 1891.
There are only three legible stone markers
and nine wooden crosses remaining.
Getting there:
Traveling west from Denver on Highway 285, go 13 miles from
C-470
past the junction of Highway 73 and the town of Conifer,
Colorado.
Travel another 4/10 of a mile to the intersection of Kennedy
Gulch
Road. Continue another 3/10 of a mile and before you pass the
junction of South Foxton Road, the cemetery will be on your right,
or west side of the road on top of a hill alongside the
roadway.
There is am ample driveway w/ large green gate just downhill
from
the call box.
There is a road that curves more northerly/ easterly from
the
green gate that make the terrain a 2. No need to bushwhack.
Look
for a camoed pill bottle. Out best info shows that this is
Denver
Mountain Parks land. The hiding place should not stump you.
You will have an excellent view of the Historic Foxton Barn,
and
Old Stone church.