The barking train is driving me mad Traditional Cache
Keystone: As the owner has not responded to my prior note, I am archiving this listing.
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Keystone
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The barking train is driving me mad
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I drive along 837 on my way to work and I wanted to stop and place a cache here but never had the time, well the time has come and the cache has been placed!!! This one will probably be a tad tricky so don't expect to run down here and get the FTF that quick. There is no need to go near the train tracks, if you go near or onto the train tracks you will be trespassing on private property. Also this was placed with permission of Pine Run UMC please be respective of the graves.
For many years this cemetery was ran by the Pine Run Methodist Episcopal Church (still here today). In the year 1890 Most of it was dug up for room for additional railroad tracks. The oldest grave plot still there is inscribed Benjamin Kuykehndal died August 12, 1802 Age: 64 Some information on Benjamin Kuykehndal: According to Joseph Parry in his book The Lost County, Wright made application to the Virginia authorities for a tract of land that would later be known as Wrightsburg. He was granted 400 acres on Peters Creek. Since Wright's charter (which still exists today) does not give a date, Parry suggests that Richard McMahon was actually the first settler. A warrant for 318 acres was issued to McMahon and a survey was completed in 1769. Another historian, Noah Thompson states in his book Early History of the Peters Creek Valley and the Early Settlers that Benjamin Kuykendall was the first settler in Jefferson Hills. Kuykendall was said to have first passed through the area in 1755 on route to Fort Duquesne on Braddock's quest to take the fort from the French. Braddock's campaign failed, but Kuykendall returned to settle in Jefferson Hills in 1757 according to Thompson.
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