GC328BG SGA -"Holly" Day at SGB (Traditional Cache) in Pennsylvania, United States created by SGAGeoTrail

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Spring Grove GeoTour: Thank you to everyone that completed the 2011 Spring Grove Area GeoTrail. We will be archiving these caches to make room for the 2012 trail. Please check out our new caches for 2012 to be published by August 27th.

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Hidden : 8/13/2011

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Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:

You’re looking for a small well hidden lock n’ lock container. Please hide the cache the same or better then you found it.

Contains a FTF Prize!

The geocache hidden at the posted coordinates is a regular geocache, however, it is also part of the Spring Grove Area GeoTrail (SGAGT), a project designed to promote the many historic areas and other places of interest in the Spring Grove Area. The SGAGT utilizes the growing interest in geocaching to assist both residents and visitors to the area in learning more about the unique attractions. This cache contains a unique self inking rubber stamp which you should use to stamp your SGAGT Passport to verify that you found it. When you have found a minimum of fourteen SGAGT caches, you will be eligible to have your SGAGT passport validated and receive a commemorative SGAGT geocoin. You must have your official SGAGT passport with you when you find this cache in order to stamp it. Click on the link below to visit the SGAGT website at (visit link) for complete details.

As with all SGA GeoTrail caches please do not attempt to locate the cache after dusk and as always be respectful.

Please notify us immediately through geocaching.com if you have any problems!

The site of Spring Grove was laid out in 1747 on the banks of Codorus Creek, midway between York City and Hanover, by a surveyor for the Penn's. Its growth since that time falls into two (2) periods, each lasting approximately 100 years. The first witnessed development of the Borough as an iron-making center. The second, which extends to the present day, is as a papermaking center. The businesses of both periods have relied on certain natural resources of the area. Originally, Spring Grove was a part of Paradise Township and was contained within the boundaries of Lancaster County. York County was formed in 1749 and Jackson Township, including Spring Grove, in 1853. The residents of the community petitioned the County Court in 1882 for incorporation as a borough, and in August of that year their petition was granted. Since that time, the Borough has grown in area as a result of annexation of the surrounding land, the largest annexation having taken place in 1953. In the 1770's, attracted by the presence of water, iron ore and wood for charcoal in the Pigeon Hills, an iron manufacturer established a forge at "Spring Forge." It is known as Spring Grove. The early German and English woodchoppers who flocked to this first Pennsylvania iron industry west of the Susquehanna were the forbearers of today's community. By the mid-19th Century, the manufacturing of iron had grown to a point where almost 200 tons of iron bar were produced locally each year. By 1851, however, the iron business had been suspended, and its buildings were converted to the manufacturing of paper. Once again local resources, wood and water, were largely responsible for the location of this industry in the Spring Grove area. Thirteen years later, the plant was purchased by P. H. Glatfelter for $14,000. Spring Grove today is a one-industry town, where the mill dominates the Borough's economic and community life.

2/22/12 UPDATE – We still have plenty of coins and would like to give them out before beginning a new trail for 2012. If you are having trouble getting to the office to redeem your coin, mail your passport to the Borough Office at 1 Campus Avenue, Spring Grove, PA 17362 and we will mail your passport and coin back, no charge.

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