The children of James Looker of Virginia came out to the area which is now Pickerington in the early part of the 19th century. One of Looker's daughters, Ann, was married to Abraham Pickering, who decided to establish a town at the site, setting aside land for a cemetery, school, and a Methodist church. The town was originally named Jacksonville in honor of Andrew Jackson’s defeat of the British during the War of 1812’s Battle of New Orleans but in the 1820s the residents decided to rename the town in Abraham Pickering’s honor. Pickerington was incorporated as a village in 1881 and has grown greatly since that time, having been certified as a city in 1991. As of the 2010 census, Pickerington was home to over 18,000 people.
Ohiowriter has spent a lot of time in Pickerington with four children having gone or still going to Pickerington schools. So with the city celebrating its 200th birthday, placing a geocache to help mark the occasion seemed like a fitting thing to do. The search for this cache will take you back across Sycamore Creek. You can either take the covered bridge or walk across the creek itself (if the water is low enough and/or your footwear is right). Once you’ve crossed the creek you’ll be in the Arboretum section of the park, a peaceful area with many trees and quite a few benches. The search for the cache will take you near the creek. Watch out for thorny plants as you approach the cache site.
We put quite a few items in the cache for people to make trades. Please remember to trade even or up! There was a small George Washington-related prize for the FTF.
Congrats to dprice95 for being the First to Find!