Welcome to the Winchester-Frederick County Civil War Trail sponsored by the Winchester-Frederick County Convention and Visitors Bureau (WFCCVB)
What better way to commemorate our area’s Sesquicentennial Anniversary of the Civil War than with a Civil War geo-trail! Come learn about our area’s involvement in the Civil War and explore all that the Winchester-Frederick County area has to offer.
This trail is comprised of 20 cache sites that are part of the Virginia Civil War Trails Program. Learn more about Civil War Trails by visiting www.CivilWarTrails.org. The Winchester-Frederick County Visitors Center is located at 1400 S. Pleasant Valley Road, Winchester, VA 22601. The Visitors Center is open daily from 9 a.m.-5 p.m., closed on major holidays..
Update 2017: This trail is now comprised of 28 caches. :)
The cache you are searching for is a daylight hours only cache.
Fort Collier Civil War Center does rent the upstairs of the house out. So yes there are residents here. Permission was given by the president of Fort Collier Civil War Center, Katherine Solenberger to place this cache..
Thanks to WVKiwi for hiding this cache.
Fort Collier Built by Confederate Lieutenant Collier and Virginia militia with the aid of Federal prisoners, this redoubt guarded the north entrance of Winchester, Virginia on the east side of the Martinsburg Pike. During later Federal occupations, it was known as Battery No. 10. The fort was set on low ground, and generally offered little military advantage, except as a guard post for the pike. Lt. Gen Jubal Early used it as part of his defensive works in the Third Battle of Winchester. Although it saw action only in the Third Battle of Winchester, Fort Collier stood imposingly throughout the war as a deterrent to attackers and a reminder to civilians of the position in which their city had been placed by circumstances beyond their control.