The Texas Spirit Quest
is a series of Caches placed by many individuals, near cemeteries and historic sites in hopes of paying respect to the many pioneer ancestors that have ‘walked’ before us.
There are hundreds of cemeteries in the rural communities across Texas. This series will introduce you to many of them. The cache pages will provide a virtual history tour of the cemeteries, tombstones and local lore.
The Antioch Cemetery, immediately alongside the bluntly-named Old Black Colony Road, is an African-American cemetery established in the Reconstruction era. The oldest known grave marker here dates back to 1880. The grounds are maintained nicely; however, several headstones show significant decay, although the fragments of the broken ones are at least neatly arranged. Note that one headstone has an actual typo: it states that the decedent was "bron" on October 13.
A little ways down the road near the intersection with Cole Springs Road is a historical marker giving some background on the Antioch Colony. It's near a mysteriously gigantic and apparently empty house-like structure.
Many local cachers should be familiar with this site. While I cannot locate any online evidence of it, it seems that a cache used to be here. I walked over to a nice spot for a hide, and found myself staring down at a tupperware container under a rock. It was last logged back in August of 2010. I do not know why the cache became defunct, but now I am repurposing it for the TSQ series. This means that I lazily did NOT even swap out the logbook, just in case some folks returning to this site wanted a trip down memory lane.
As always, coordinate corrections are welcomed.