SGA -Learn Something New Everyday Multi-Cache
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.
SGA -Learn Something New Everyday
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Coordinates posted are for the first stage. You’re looking for a well hidden micro cache. You will need a tool to retrieve the log with the coordinates for the second stage. The second stage contains the stamp.
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.
This cache has been placed with permission by the owner of the property. 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!
Glatfelter Memorial Library
The Spring Grove Free Public Library, organized in 1937 by a group of interested citizens, was first housed in a small room adjacent to the auditorium building of what was then the Spring Grove Area Intermediate School. The library was later moved to a new location on Constitution Avenue which consisted of 6000 square feet. During a school expansion in 1958, a larger, more centrally located library was constructed on East Street. The public and school libraries were combined until the PA Department of Education required their separation. The public library was formally incorporated as a non-profit organization in 1965. In 1967, the library moved to the former Hoke farmhouse located along North Main Street. It consisted of three small rooms and provided 1,200 square feet of space for more than 12,000 books. Increased usage taxed the library facilities for many years, with books filling every nook and corner - including the old kitchen fireplace. Library activities were very limited or non-existent due to the space limitations. In 1987, as a direct result of a bequest from the late Miss Julia Sprenkel, the Board of Trustees formed the "MALL (Make a Library Live) Committee" to raise funds for a new library. In 1990 the PH Glatfelter Company pledged to match $200,000 of the contributions received. The company matched a second grant of $50,000 in 1991. Spring Forge Development, Inc. donated a 1.9 acre lot located along Glenview Road for the building site. The board selected Spring Grove native Walter Geiger of Morris Architects to design the new library. On May 18, 1992 the new library opened to the public. It has space for 40,000 books. The Spring Grove Free Public Library was officially renamed the Glatfelter Memorial Library on September, 23, 1992.
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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