Poor Farm Remembered Traditional Cache

There are several ways to approach this cache.  The majority of the walk is on well maintained, paved trails.  The last few yards is a doosy and, depending on where you approach it from it could be considered a terrain rating of 4 star or more.    Park gates close at dusk.

Otsiningo Park is home to soccer fields, bocce ball, walking trails, free wi-fi, community gardens, tables and grills, children's play structures, volley ball court, and at certain times of migration, thousands of geese.

But in days of yesteryear, a Poor Farm was located here.  Beginning in the 1830s, the farm's 123 acres fulfilled the state requirement that each county have a public-supported home for the poor.  The farm served a wide range of people, including unwed mothers, the disabled, the mentally ill and alcoholics, before it was turned over to be farmed by county inmates in the 1920s.  The farm and home closed in the 1960s.