JOE I-79 Exit 14 Traditional Cache
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The JOE cache series was started by altosaxplayer, a member of the Tri-Cities Geocachers. The name JOE means "Just Off Exit". This series was started as an Interstate 70 equivalent to the "Loop to Loop" and I-81 cache series that was started in Nashville TN by cgeek. The JOE caches are placed no more than two tenths of a mile from the exit and the hint is a dead give away to the cache location. JOE caches are an easy way to pick up more cache finds while traveling.
GREENE COUNTY HISTORY and GENERAL "MAD" ANTHONY WAYNE Greene County — was created on February 9, 1796, from part of Washington County and named for General Nathanael Greene. Waynesburg, the county seat, named for Major General Anthony Wayne, was laid out in 1796, and incorporated as a borough on January 29, 1816. The following statistics have been recorded on General Mad Anthony Wayne: Born: New Year's Day in 1745 in Chester County, at Waynesborough, near Paoli, Pennsylvania Died: December 16, 1796 at the age of 51 Father: Isaac Wayne Mother: Married: Children: Isaac Life: Wayne was named for his grandfather, who had fought with the British army before emigrating to America. As a youngster Wayne delighted in playing at war and as he grew older he enjoyed such pastimes as horse racing and pistol shooting. When he was of school age he went to his uncle Gabriel's academy in nearby Philadelphia but he did not show much interest in books. Eventually his enthusiasm for the outdoors and flair for mathematics attracted him to the field of surveying. After studies in Philadelphia, Wayne became an excellent surveyor and served Benjamin Franklin for a short time as an agent in Nova Scotia. He later returned to the family farm in Pennsylvania. But he never lost his interest in the military, and when the Revolutionary War began he was eager to serve. In June 1796, Wayne was back in the frontier overseeing the surrender of British forts to the United States. In November he became ill with gout. On Dec. 16, 1796, he died and at his request, was buried in a plain oak coffin near Erie, Pennsylvania. Wayne has to be one of the few famous people in American history known to have two graves. ~~ Thirteen years after Wayne's death, his son, Isaac Wayne, decided to move his father's body to the family's burial plot at St. David's Church in Radnor, Pennsylvania. More information can be found at: http://www.co.greene.pa.us/secured/gc2/history/AnthonyWayne.htm CONGRATULATIONS PAMINERIII FOR BEING FTF!
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