GC1EV5F Below Berea Ridge (Traditional Cache) in Kentucky, United States created by gary_f

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gary_f_jackson: Looks like Berea College is clearing out this stand of trees. It was a good run while it lasted. Thanks to everyone who paid a visit here.

GC1EV5F ▼

A cache by gary_f_jackson Message this owner

Hidden : 8/4/2008

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Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:

This cache is a wide-mouth, camo taped, one (1) quart container. It is large enough for small trade items and travel bugs.

Parking is located about 0.2 miles from the cache, in the parking lot of Berea Community School / Berea City Park. You can park near the Berea Independent Board of Education building. Care should be exercised, especially with small children, when crossing Ellipse Street which has heavy traffic at times. The cache is located at the edge of a large, well manicured lawn with numerous trees near the Berea College campus. You will have to walk a few feet into the tree line across ankle deep foliage to retrieve the cache.

Below Berea Ridge

Above this site is what was once known as Berea Ridge. It is the site of Berea College, originally founded in 1855 by an abolitionist, Reverend John G. Fee, with initial assistance from the American Missionary Association and a local antislavery politician and well-to-do Madison County landowner, Cassius M. Clay.

Berea's school and church were dedicated to Christian principles of anti-rum, anti-caste prejudice, and anti-sectarianism but armed proslavery opposition forced the Berea workers out of the state in the winter of 1859. As the Civil War started, several exiled Bereans slipped back into Kentucky, including Rev. Fee. After the war ended in 1865, Fee returned to his home in Berea and resumed his work of building an interracial college and a new church, Union, based on anti-caste principles of impartial love and Christian brotherhood.

Rev. Fee invited some of the African American families from Camp Nelson to come to Berea to make a new life and get an education. By 1870, several dozen families had arrived to help build the interracial town, churches and Berea College. An estimated 200 black families settled in the glades and valleys surrounding Berea. Several black families lived in the Glades, through which Glades Road now runs, and like William and Naomi Rash, were farmers and literate. Two silent monuments to these black pioneers can be seen today. Rash Road, named after William and Naomi Rash, connects Ellipse Street to Glades Road and runs parallel to U.S. Hwy 25 and Walnut Meadow Pike (Hwy 595). The White Family Cemetery, located in front of Berea's post office on Glades Road, is a rediscovered black cemetery where an estimated 400 bodies are buried.

Taken from The Early History of Black Berea.

Initial contents are several small trade items, a travel bug, and a yellow compass zipper pull for the FTF.

Congratulations to rebeccaventer for the FTF!

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

N ebpx naq jerpxrq gerr

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)