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Hidden : 7/30/2010
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:

You are seeking a medium-sized plastic container hidden just off the grounds of a century-old one-room schoolhouse.

In 1875, Lui Wenger built the first farmhouse between Bern and Sabetha half a mile south and donated the land that now contains the cache.

At the same time in nearby Independence, Missouri, an eight-year-old Laura Ingalls Wilder walked two and a half miles each day to another one-room schoolhouse that would later become the inspiration for Little House On the Prairie.

The Oregon Trail crossed through Lui’s farmlands until the end of the Civil War, just a few years earlier. Many settlers must have passed this spot in Conestoga wagons, and the arrowheads found in these fields suggest why one in ten didn’t survive the journey.

Lui's son, Jacob, served as a runner in the 353th Infantry in World War I, delivering notes between trenches during battle. After surviving mustard gas, on November 1, 1918, only 10 days before the Armistice, Jacob was shot in the leg.

During his convalescence stateside, he married childhood sweetheart Stella and returned to the farmhouse.

Over 90 years later, Jacob and Stella’s descendents placed this cache in his honor.

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