Smith Farm Multi-cache Multi-Cache
Three Creeks: The cache continues to be muggled and unfortunately I am no longer close enough to monitor and maintain appropriately.
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This is a two part multi-cache that begins as a micro and then grows into a small water-tight box. The terrain around both chaces is flat and easily accessible. There is a paved path that may also be handy to some with limited mobility. Parking is also located nearby.
Metro Park Geocaching Permit #GCP14-0010-10.
This cache is located on what once was the 328-acre farm of the Smith family. The following is a brief history of how the Smith family came to Madison Township, how their farm grew prosperous as a place to buy local produce, and how such a wonderful piece of history became a park.
Lot L. Smith, the farmer who sold his land to the park in 1994, was the great-grandson of a lawyer from Athens, Ohio. His great-grandfather served that district in the Ohio Senate from 1853 to 1857. After moving to Columbus, he represented Franklin County in the state’s House of Representatives from 1887 to 1891.
Lot L.’s grandfather was born in 1857 in Athens, Ohio. Rather than follow in his father’s footsteps as a politician and lawyer he decided to become a farmer. After marrying, he began farming in Marion Township, east of Columbus, where his wife’s family had a significant amount of land. Later they moved to Madison Township where his only son, Lot L.’s father, was born in 1885. He established the farm that is now part of the park.
Lot L. and his father experimented with various fruits and vegetables on the commercial produce farm. With the proximity to the growing city of Columbus, the farm became very profitable selling strawberries, peas, greens beans, sweet corn, and pumpkins directly to the consumers.
Although none of Lot L.’s sons-in-law or grandchildren wished to continue the farming operation, the legacy of the farm still lives on through the Fall Harvest Jamboree each year. There is also a store at the corner of Watkins Road and Winchester Pike where they sell locally grown produce, baked goods, and flowers. The rest of the farm was sold to Columbus Parks and Recreation in 1994 upon Lot L. Smith’s retirement with the agreement that it would remain preserved as an open space for people to enjoy.
The second part of the multi-cache is located near where an old homestead once stood. A shelter nearby was constructed in the spring of 2010 in honor of Lot L. Smith. This is a place where visitors can rest and perhaps reminisce about their own family memories of eating watermelons and carving pumpkins.
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