This
is a micro hiding in a cemetery in Coatesville, Indiana, a town
with no geocaches in it! (Soon to change!) The original cache that
was here was hidden by Rupert2, and it was GCP4TX. Enjoy the
replacement! go-purdue
INDIANA SPIRIT
QUEST
Photos by
Rupert2
The
Indiana Spirit Quest series of geocaches will take you to a number
of historic cemeteries built by Hoosier Pioneers. In just over a
year and a half, the quest has grown to over a two hundred ten
caches hidden in twenty-two Indiana counties, and the hiders have
grown to seven cacher teams, six of which are comprised of A Man
and His Dog... and one who is a Dog and her Woman. 325 cacher teams
have logged over 3,200
finds.
INDIANA
SPIRIT QUEST #210
”Old Needle in a Haystack
"
Welcome to the Coatesville Cemetery, Clay
Township, Hendricks Co, Indiana south of Coatesville. This is a
very modern cemetery. I came here looking for the grave of Mathias
Masten, a Revolutionary War Veteran. After walking around the
entire site I was somewhat perplexed about where would a
Revolutionary War Veteran be buried in this new cemetery. It took
some searching but I finally found the older graves...there are
only a handful of them.
Unlike most of the Graves of Revolutionary War
Veterans I have visited, this has the origional and a modern
marker. The origional stone is still in place although laying flat
on the ground Mathias Masten was born on March 9, 1765 in Delaware
and died on November 9 1856. I have made the stone a little easier
to find given it is very close to the cache and that all the
Mastens are buried in the same area. His stone contains a large
masonic symbol.
This is the modern gravestone of Masten. It is located directly in
front of the old one. It also contains the masonic
symbol.
Please leave the cache at least as well concealed, if not
better, than you found it. If you find fallen or worn US flags at
the graves of veterans, please take a moment to upright or replace
them. Dispose of worn US flags in a respectable manner.
If you find the coordinates to be a little off, do not
hesitate to post a waypoint with your log. As always, be
respectful, and cache in, trash
out.
WARNING: FIND LOGS ON THIS CACHE THAT INDICATE NIGHT
CACHING WILL BE DELETED WITHOUT
NOTICE!
"Indiana Spirit Quest" is brought to
you by the following fellows of GEOISQ*: The SixDogTeam, Kodiak
Kid, THE SHADOW, Team Shydog, Rupert2, Torry, ~Mystery Dog~, and
Team Tigger
International."