"Ohio Spirit Quest"
The Ohio Spirit Quest series of geocaches will take you to a number of historic cemeteries built by Buckeye Pioneers. This series is inspired by and a continuation of the Indiana Spirit Quest caches created by Six Dog Team. In just over three years, the SPIRIT QUEST has grown to over 550 caches, with the hiding teams growing as well. The Ohio Spirit Quest has grown to over 60 in Ohio, with five current caching teams, three each with A Man and His Dog, one with a Couple and Their Dog... and one with A Woman and her Dog.
Over 1,000 cachers have logged over 20,000 finds. One cache machine found 111 ISQ caches in a single day (daylight hours only).
Come with us now for a virtual tour of this burial ground via this page, then go out and find the cache!
Edgewood Cemetery
Ashtabula Township, Ashtabula County, Ohio
OHIO SPIRIT QUEST #71
Edgewood Cemetery
Peleg Sweet came from Connecticut,, having traded a farm in that state for the "Holmes Tracts, " comprising about 800 acres in the East Villiage and extending from the north line of the Fargo homestead to the Lake Shore. At that time Ashtabula was in wilderness and Indians roamed the banks of the Ashtabula River. In 1805 he built the first tavern in Ahstaubla and was well known for his hospitality and his quaint personality.To a large extent, Edgewood cemetery stands today as a monument to Peleg Sweeet. This land was given by to the township for cemetery purposes. When this cemetery was first laid out, there was no high level bridge on the the people passed going back and forth between the two parts of town. East Village, or Edgewood Square, was also a gift of Mr. Sweet and a memorial stands there in the memory of this pioneer Ashtabula Citizen and Revolutionary War Solder. When Mrs Sweet died in 1825, he gave to each of his five sons and four daughers a farm. One of his sons, Isaac Sweet, built a homeon his share of the land which his father gave him on Dec 5-1811. That house stood about 50 feet south of the home which is now occupied by Mrs. Maude Kellogg 4019 state road, the granddaughter of Isacc Sweet and the great-granddaughter of Peleg Sweet.
Peleg Sweet
Mary Wilkerson Sweet
Congrats to shu013
F.T.F.!!!
The cache container is a regular sized Moops Container.
If you find a fallen US flag, please stick it back in the ground. As always, please be respectful, and cache in, trash out.
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"Ohio Spirit Quest" is brought to you by the following fellows of GEOOSQ*: The SixDogTeam, THE SHADOW, The Moop Along, -Eleanor-, TeamMina, Handyman & Fam. If you are interested in spreading the Quest to your neck of the woods AND WOULD LIKE TO JOIN US, email Handyman & Fam with caching resume and at least 25 current notarized references.
*Grand Exalted Order of the Ohio Spirit Quest*
