FP Series #703 - Dr. William S. Pitts Traditional Cache
Hidden : 11/8/2011
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Seven Hundred Third in the Famous People (FP) Series - Dr. William S. Pitts
During a stagecoach ride to visit his fiancée in Fredericksburg, Iowa, the stage stopped at Bradford and allowed William S. Pitts time to wander the area and enjoy the woodlands. Pitts found particular beauty in a wooded valley formed by the Cedar River. While viewing the spot, Pitts envisioned a church building there and could not seem to ease the vision from his mind.

Returning to his home in Wisconsin, he wrote the now famous song "The Church in the Wildwood".

By 1862 Pitts was married, and he and his wife moved to Fredericksburg to be near her elderly parents. He was surprised upon his return to the area to find a church being erected where he had imagined it five years before. The building was even being painted brown, because that was the least expensive color of paint to be found. During the winter of 1863-64 he taught a singing class at Bradford Academy. Pitts had his class sing the song at the dedication of the new church in 1864. This was the first time the song was sung by anyone apart from Pitts himself.

Shortly into the new century, the Society For The Preservation of The Little Brown Church was founded, and by 1914, services were again held in the building. The church has become a popular tourist spot, and remains so today. It attracts thousands of visitors every year to see or be married in the little brown church in the vale.

You can not access this cache from the cemetery. Suggested approach is from inside Gateway Park, in dry weather. As you approach the cache site where this large purple, uncamoed bison tube awaits, you may notice just off to the northwest, a little brown church in the wildwood. Sometimes you never know what you may find hanging around.

Did I mention you can't get there from the cemetery? Well you can't.

 GPSr Accuracy 7.6'
Avoid the use of acronym only logs, one word logs and cut 'n paste logs. You must sign the log to claim the find. No exceptions, no excuses. Blank logs may be deleted without notice.

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