GC301EG LITTLE WHITE CHURCH (HPRDC) (Multi-cache) in New York, United States created by MINAPOPPOP

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Latest victim: “LITTLE WHITE CHURCH (HPRDC)” GC301EG (multi) [26 favorite points]
Hidden: 7/12/2011 (First cache we hid)

1st stage: found bison tube shoved in backwards into the drilled hole of the wooden cross. The end cap had a ring to extract the tube cleanly. Since tube was backwards, the ring was caught tightly inside. After many visits and a multitude of different methods to extract the wedged tube, the bottom had to be drilled. Finally, after 2 hours I replaced the 1st stage. Decided to check the 2nd stage.

2nd stage: MISSING! This was a home-made PVC pipe container with a bison tube suspended on a chain inside the pipe. The pipe was driven into a raised garden bed along side of the church’s sign. The entire cache was taken.

So… no more!

I thank all of the cachers that found my caches and hope that some of them were creative enough to give you a smile.

John
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Hidden : 7/12/2011

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Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

This is pretty much a park and grab multi-cache. Lots of parking and easy terrain. The first capsule will give you the coordinates to the final cache. This is a micro cache capsule so there is only a log to sign. BYOP A little stealth was used in hiding the capsules.

Cache Info:

This multi-cache is hidden at The Hyde Park Reformed Dutch Church located in historical Hyde Park, home of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. This is pretty much a park and grab multi-cache. Lots of parking and easy terrain. The first capsule will give you the coordinates to the final cache. This is a micro cache capsule so there is only a log to sign. BYOP If room, you can leave micro Geocoins. A little stealth was used in hiding the capsules. Muggles can be around depending on the day and time, but generally muggle free. FTF have lunch on me. You will know what I mean.

Congrats to birder428 & son for FTF. Sounds like son gets the kudos on this one. Glad it went well.

I explained Geocaching and presented hiding a cache on the church's grounds to the consistory (governing body). It was voted on and accepted unanimously and received as a great idea to have people come visit the grounds of our church. Feel free to walk around, but always show respect. I had permission for all cache hides. Welcome.

Hyde Park Reformed Dutch Church History:

At the close of the Revolutionary War, a need of a church to serve the community of "Stoutenburg's Landing", as Hyde Park was then called, was urgent. The affiliations of the people in the area were Dutch Reformed, Episcopalian, and Presbyterian. In early 1789 a union church was formed, called "the Stoutenburgh Religious Society". Mr. Luke Stoutenburgh at his death willed an acre of land for a church and burial purposes.

In 1789 the church was built and in November, the building was occupied. At the first community meeting, it was decided that the first of the denominations proving itself independently strong enough to support a church was to have the church and the property. Events proved that the Dutch Reformed were the first to fulfill this condition. In 1792 the Reformed Dutch Church was constituted by the Classis of Kingston, New York.

In roughly 1803, the village suffered a slight change in name and the church incorporated under the name of the Reformed Church of Stoutsburg. By 1817, the village changed it's name again and the church changed it's name to the Reformed Church of Hyde Park. This name has continued to the present day.

The church is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.

Odell Tracker Pipe Organ Restoration:

Our church also proudly owns an ODELL - Tracker Pipe Organ, originally installed in 1888 by Walter Langdon. The organ is now 113 years old, and has an estimated value of one quarter of a million dollars.

This organ has recently been restored by Ken Stark, a member of our congregation. Ken took on the tremendous task of restoring this organ, with efforts to match the original design and overall appearance. The organ pieces were sent to Eastern Organ Company in Maryland to be refurbished and tuned. Many families now attending church recall when this was a hand pumped organ, as the task was performed by young boys, for twenty-five cents a Sunday.

Kristen Farmer, of Winston Salem NC, a professional pipe decorator, generously volunteered to complete the final design and colors for the twenty eight facade pipes. She decorated the two different designs on the pipes, established the base colors and restored the intricate stencil work.

A grant was also given by the Robert Goelet Foundation of NYC for this project. This grant has allowed us to establish an endowment to repair and tune the organ as needed. Today, the organ is a beautiful asset to our church and makes the church very proud to possess it.

Graveyard:

East and south of the church is the graveyard. It contains over a hundred tombstones, of sandstone, granite and marble, from a 200-year period starting in 1790. Their funerary art ranges from plain with a few death's heads on the earlier ones to a full range of common 19th-century motifs, such as urns and willows, on later ones. History buffs and cemetery enthusiasts make tombstone rubbings in the general graveyard. To the far east, there is also a graveyard section dedicated to slaves. The tombstones in the graveyard are old and fragile, so be careful and show respect. (No climbing)
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Other Places of Interest:

Numerous places to visit while in the area: FDR Home, Library & Museum, Val-kill (Eleanor Roosevelt). Top Cottage (FDR), Vanderbilt Mansion, Mills Mansion, Hyde Park Train Station & Museum, Norrie State Park, & Culinary Institute of America. Numerous trails, many with caches: Vanderbilt loops, Bard Rock Trail, Pinewoods Nature Trail Loop, Hackett Hill Park Trails, Winnakee Nature Preserve Trail, Roosevelt Woods Trail, Roosevelt Farm Lane Trail, Eleanor’s Walk, Top Cottage Trail, Blue Trail, & White Trail.
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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Pevffpebff Pnpur – Cneg 1 Pncf bss gb nyy gung svaq zr. – Cneg 2

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)

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