Marker #8-11: 1950 National - Ohio Plowing Match Traditional Cache
Marker #8-11: 1950 National - Ohio Plowing Match
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An easy cache. We found this marker when we were looking for another nearby cache and felt it needed a cache. Since my wife's family has farmed this area for over 100 years and her grandfather may well have attended this event we thought it appropriate to make it better known.
"1950 National and Ohio Plowing Matches" Benson Road and the North Urbana Lisbon Road (SR 54) in Champaign County was the site of the 1950 National and Ohio Plowing Matches and the National Association of Soil Conservation Districts Field Days. The three-day event drew a crowd of nearly 75,000 and was headquartered in the woods of the Edwin (Ned) Kirby farm located a quarter mile north on Benson Road. The National Association of Soil Conservation Districts sponsored the National and Ohio Plowing Matches. The first national matches were held in Mitchellville, Iowa in 1939 and continued until halted by the start of World War II. They resumed in 1945. Ohio's 1950 Champaign County-Union Township National Plowing Matches was the first "National" to be held outside Iowa. The 1950 National and Ohio Plowing Matches featured a group of fourteen-Buck Creek Valley farmers who acted as hosts for the plowing matches where Urbana's two-time world champion Dean Wilson completed for a third title. It also featured a new activity known as "Wagon Trains," which involved Union Township host farmers who used 125 wagons and tractors to haul the crowds of people and farmers to view the plowing matches, demonstrations, and many conservation projects that covered 2,200 surrounding acres spread over 10 farms. The event also featured five parking fields covering 200 acres and an airfield on the south side and parallel to SR 54, adjacent to Benson Road, for the "flying farmers" who demonstrated seeding, fertilizing, and corn borer control. --------------------------UPDATE----------------------- This cache was hidden by my brother, Castlequick, he passed away in 2016. I have not been here at this location since I found it back when it was first published. I will do my best to keep it active in his memory. TeddyR
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