“INDIANA SPIRIT QUEST”
The Indiana Spirit Quest series of
geocaches will take you to a number of historic cemeteries
and historic sites built by Hoosier Pioneers. In almost 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 forty cacher teams, most of which are comprised of Dogs and
their Humans. Over 1,000 cacher teams have
logged over 50,000 finds.
(Cemetery photos by Team Itchy &
Scratchy)
INDIANA
SPIRIT QUEST #647
"Purple
Heart Highway"
The Purple Heart
Memorial Highway is a nationwide memorial dedicated to the honor
and memory of all combat-wounded veterans. In Indiana, State Road 1
was designated as the Purple Heart Memorial Highway. It Runs
through Indiana's eastern counties from Steuben to
Dearborn.
The Purple Heart dates
back to General George Washington who issued the original orders
describing a Badge of Military Merit, a heart fashioned from purple
material and worn on the left breast.
At the close of the
Revolution, Washington’s orders disappeared—for 150 years the medal
and the honor that it bestowed were lost. It wasn’t until a search
of records was being conducted in preparation for Washington’s
bicentennial birthday celebration in 1932 that the order was
rediscovered.
A new Purple Heart
medal was designed specifically to honor the soldier wounded or
killed in the course of combat. It is the oldest symbol and award
that is still given to members of the U.S.
military.
Located just off
Indiana's Purple Heart Memorial Highway in Union Township, Randolph
County is the Little Creek Cemetery, also called Maulsby's, The
oldest known burial here dates back to 1845. it is still an active
cemetery.
Badge of Merit awarded by George Washington (left) Modern Purple
Heart (right)
HandiCaching.com rating: H12133
The cache is a small lock-n-lock
container with room for small trades. As usual, the cache is hidden
away from graves, no ISQ searching after dusk and remember cache in
– trash out. Have fun and please leave the cache exactly as
found.
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Spirit Quest" is brought to you by the following fellows of
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