As COVID-19 evolves, it’s important for you to consider the risks and manage them appropriately. Remember to read all signage before entering any trail system.
Guidelines for Geocaching:
- Stay home if you’re feeling sick
- Maintain 2m physical distancing with people outside of your social circle
- Carry hand sanitizer and use it before AND after contact with geocaches
Please note: cache containers are not officially sanitized at any time. If you do choose to open a cache, it is at your own risk.
This cache has been placed as part of an initiative by the County of Peterborough, its member municipalities, the City of Peterborough and local First Nation communities to celebrate Canada 150+. There are 23 geocaches placed throughout the region showcasing local history.
If you would like to participate in this initiative you can download a Travel Diary at Geocaching at Peterborough & the Kawarthas Tourism. Find at least one geocache in each of the Townships, First Nations and in the City and stamp your Travel Diary. Once you have completed the Travel Diary, you can visit the Peterborough and the Kawartha’s Tourism office to pick up a limited geocoin. New coins in stock in 2018.
On the lid of the cache container you will see a stamp. If you have a stamp pad with you, great, use that to ink the stamp and stamp your Travel Diary. If not, use the crayon or the pencil in the cache container to "rub" the impression of the stamp on your Travel Diary.
School Section No. 7 (Deer Bay School) was the last to be created in Harvey Township, due to the sparse population. A wood-frame school house was built in 1898 on 1-acre parcel of land donated by Robert Lyttle with a loan for the construction financed by the local Anglican priest, Reverend Canon (“Father”) J. Hartley for which each of the five families had to repay him $50. This hilltop one-room white frame building had two big wood props braced against it to steady it in a high wind.
The cement block school house here now was built in 1930. In 1940, land was bought from A.L. Reeves to expand the school grounds. The school operated until 1968 when it was sold to the Township for use as a local community centre.
One student, Tilley (Bolton) Ireland, recalls boys being strapped for misspelling a single word, the warm, but difficult, layers of long-johns, knitted socks, and wool coats, and the fun of “bob-sleds” crafted from three apple barrel staves bolted to a long plank that would carry 15-16 children down snowy hills.
In the fall and winter months, the old, winding “tote” or “cadge” road that led past here was used to supply the lumber camps, a staple of the local economy. A lack of dynamite meant that most level and dry path was chosen for the road. This route is said to have become known as the “Oregon Trail” because an early settler imagined the half-day journey between Buckhorn and Burleigh Falls would finally end there. Today’s travelers follow a much smoother and straighter route.
Source:
Brunger, Alan George. Harvey Township: An Illustrated History. Buckhorn, Ont.: Greater Harvey Historical Society, 1992. 155-58, 323-325. Print.