Pleasant Grove Cemetery Traditional Cache
Hidden : 11/9/2016
Difficulty:
5 out of 5
Terrain:
4 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

As with all cemetery caches, please refrain from searching for the cache if there is a service in progress and absolutely NO night caching.

Pleasant Grove Cemetery is another small country cemetery along "The Parallel Road". A few miles west of here, the road becomes the boundary between Jackson county and Nemaha county. If you were to draw a line due west from here, you would find that it essentially runs along the southern county line of every county in the northern tier of Kansas. In 1854, the boundary between Kansas and Nebraska was established along the 40th parallel and became the baseline for all public land surveys in Kansas and Nebraska. This road runs along the 1st Standard Parallel South, hence the name. The road was established in 1859 by Atchison businessmen when gold was discovered in the Denver city, which was then part of the Kansas territory. Many small communities were established along the length of the road and eventually the Central Branch of the Union Pacific Railroad was built along generally the same route.
The reasons that the road were built quickly passed away and many of the communities have also disappeared, but two things remain,
1) long time residents of both counties will always call this road "The Parallel", even if they forget why,
2) small country cemeteries like this one will serve as a reminder of the people who lived and died in this area.

This particular cemetery actually started as the burial ground for a congregation of the United Brethren Church. The church stood at the southeast corner of the cemetery, near some stone steps that you will see as you approach the cemetery. The church has long since been torn down. The first burial, like so many 19th century cemeteries, was a young boy, named Willie Hodges in 1861. The cemetery is the final resting place of over 200 people and it is still used today by area residents.

There are many places to hide a cache in this cemetery, but when I saw the beautiful tree at GZ, I knew where it had to be.
It's a tough one.
Please make note of the D/T rating and the attributes.
I suggest you start climbing before you start looking for the cache.
Enjoy.

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