Martha Washington Star Barn Quilt Multi-Cache
Martha Washington Star Barn Quilt
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Hardin County has a number of barn quilts, and I recently found a
map of their locations. I enjoyed driving around and looking at the
various quilts, and placing some caches, so you can come take a
look too.
Please hunt this cache during daylight hours only. Enjoy!
This cache is a simple offset cache.
The posted co-ords will take you to view the quilt.
To figure the final co-ords look at the left hand driveway post.
How many words are in the name shown here? This number times 2 = A.
Then take the number in the address and add 182 to get B.
The micro cache can be found at:
N 37 42.5AA
W 085 56.B
Martha Washington has always been thought of as a kindly woman and
as an icon of colonial life. She was a very pretty woman who loved
horseback riding and who refrained from voicing her own political
opinions while her husband was still in office. At seventeen,
Martha had married Daniel Parke Custis, a wealthy landowner. In the
eight years that they were married, Martha had four children, two
of whom died in infancy. At the age of twenty-five, Martha found
herself to be a widow with two small children. When she met George
Washington at a ball, they fell in love, and married. George proved
to be a kindly stepfather to her two surviving children: Martha
(called “Patsy”), and Jacky. Fate was not kind. George and Martha
lost these two children when they were seventeen and twenty six
years of age, respectively. After that, the first lady comforted
herself by caring for two of her grandchildren, Eleanor Parke
Custis, ("Nelly"), and George Washington Parke Custis, ("Wash"),
whom she and George raised at Mount Vernon.
Martha Washington secured her own place in history as the
supportive and exemplary wife of the Father of the New Nation by
her sewing and needlework skills, in addition to her unmatched
hospitality. Besides visiting the soldiers while she visited the
Beloved General on camp site, she was famous for setting up sewing
circles involving wives of other officers during the war to make
socks and shirts for soldiers.
The cache is hidden a short distance away from the barn quilt.
Parking is available on a side road.
As always, it is not necessary to open any utility or electric box
while hunting this cache.
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