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This cache is one of 2 caches located at Stearns Woods placed on 11-11-11. The woods are home to a variety of wild life including deer, owls, raccoons, opossum, hawks and countless squirrels. There is one main path. There are several larger trees that have fallen over the path.
Limited parking is available at the entrance at N 39° 13.852 W 084° 28.646 nexxt to this cache on a narrow 1-lane street.
Edwin Russell Stearns donated the property for the Green Areas Trust of Wyoming in April 2001. The Stearns family is prominent in the city, developing the first library and church (the Presbyterian on Wyoming Avenue, built in 1870) and operating the Stearns and Foster Co. The business, founded as a cotton mill by Seth Foster and George S. Stearns in 1846, was family-owned and operated for 139 years. It still operates today, although the family no longer owns it.
Stearns and Foster supplied Abraham Lincoln's casket, donated mattresses during the flood of 1937 and helped build the first high school in Wyoming.
On September 5, 2002, a historical marker was dedicated for Stearns Woods. The Stearns were also recognized for their contributions to the city of Cincinnati during the Ohio River flood of 1937. The company had donated thousands of mattresses to the Red Cross and had provided thousands of gallons of clean drinking water to area hospitals and residents.
A pin commemorating Hurricane Katrina relief efforts by the Red Cross was placed in the cache on 11-11-11.
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