Walnut Grove Traditional Cache
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Another Camo Lock-N-Lock hidden with permission in the Cold Springs Cemetery
This cache is placed with the permission of the Cold Springs Cemetery. Caching hours are from 8AM until Dusk. It is a regular size cache with a few trade item. First To Find is a “Fine German Porcelain Hummel Mug (Collectable item).
Cold Springs Cemetery is significant as an example of a Victorian rural cemetery associated with the development of the City and Town of Lockport during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Legally established in 1840, it includes the original burying grounds of circa 1815 behind the tavern owned by Charles Wilbur. The current 45 acres is situated on an undulating slope facing north along the Niagara Escarpment, and features a cold spring that trickles through the cemetery.
Additionally, the cemetery is the oldest cemetery in the city and town of Lockport and it illustrates stylistic changes seen in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Contained in the cemetery are examples of funerary art ranging from uninscribed headstones to family plots surrounded by cast iron fences and three mausoleums.
Some of the more prominent interments in the cemetery include:
-Lyman Spalding (1800-1885), one of Lockport's most successful early entrepreneurs. When the NY State Legislature approved selling the surplus water rights along the Erie Canal, Spalding purchased land near the canal and was in the process of building a flourmill powered by a raceway from the canal.
- Birdsall Holly (1820-1894), an inventor who developed several pump designs. He founded the Holly Manufacturing Company which manufactured sewing machines, pumps, and hydraulic equipment. He held over 150 patents at the time of his death.
- Jesse Hawley (1788-1848), was a flour merchant in Geneva, New York who became an early and major proponent of building of the Erie Canal. Struggling to receive shipments and make deliveries over the wretched roadways of the era, Hawley imagined the canal as early as 1805. Eventually, in 1807, Hawley's difficulties in securing reasonably priced transportation drove him to debtors prison for twenty months. While in prison, writing under the name Hercules, he published fourteen essays on the idea of the canal from the Hudson river to Lake Erie; they appeared in the Genesee Messenger.Considering his modest education and lack of formal training as an engineer or surveyor, Hawley's writing was remarkable; he pulled together a wealth of information necessary to the project, provided detailed analysis of the problems to be solved, and wrote with great eloquence and foresight on the importance the canal would have to the state and to the nation. Though they were deemed the ravings of a madman by some, Hawley's essays were to prove immensely influential on the development of the canal.
FTF: Eagle Crest Soldiers Medal
Congrats to ny_d_sire, hotrod&pman, munchi8175 for FTF
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