THE GREAT DIVIDE TB HOTEL AND CACHE Traditional Cache
SWEETS2-66: My husband passed away recently. We spent many hours geocaching together. We loved doing this. My heart is not into doing this anymore. I cannot do this without him.
THE GREAT DIVIDE TB HOTEL AND CACHE
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This cache is placed along the beautiful Miami and Erie Canal Trail. We thought this area needed a TB hotel in a kid friendly, regular size container.
This could be a high muggle area at certain times.
Congratulations to Grouchmedic for FTF!
The idea of where to place this TB hotel/cache and the name came from a retired New Bremen High School teacher.
Now for the history part:
The construction of the Miami and Erie canal began in 1825 and completed in 1845. The "Big Ditch" work was done by German, Irish, and French immigrants who manually moved trees, rocks, and soil through the wilderness for 31 cents a day and a jigger of whiskey. The total cost was more than 8 million dollars. The canal was able to work because of Ohio's topography. It was formed by a glacier that covered 2/3 of the state. As the ice melted, the weight and movement of the glacier carved the land and a continental divide(thus the cache name) occurred just south of New Bremen. All water north of the Amsterdam road flows north to the St. Lawrence River. All water south of the Amsterdam road flows south to the Ohio River. New Bremen is the farthest place south on the North American continent where water flows nearly 700 miles north to the Atlantic ocean. (Thanks Mr. Miller! :)
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