Welcome to the Pembina Walsh Historic Trail (PWHT). Earn and log a commemorative coin after finding five caches in each county! Fill out the PWHT Passport at https://rendezvousregion.com/download/passport.pdf and submit it to receive your coin(s)! Our caches are located at the most interesting historical sites in Pembina and Walsh County in northeast North Dakota. This trail includes a number of gadget caches designed by Trycacheus.
West Point Cemetery is the gravesite of Charles R. Facy – it’s a strange grave – the grave has an outline curbing with the name “C. R. Facy” in the concrete in what I assume is the head of the grave. He was a young man murdered by his father on a farm only a short distance away. The last burial at West Point (1921) – a woman. Next to her grave is that of her 11- day old baby.
Her husband was buried in the Crystal City Cemetery years later – his headstone had the letters KKK engraved on it. According to locals, there was a disagreement about having the letters removed. The engraved letters were later filled in, but if you stare at the stone long enough, you can still make them out. The KKK was quite strong in the late 1920’s in North Dakota – their platform was not racially charged but was based on a religious bias against people of the Jewish and Catholic faiths.
T=Terrain - 1.5; D=Difficulty - 2; S=Size -Regular; ATTRIBUTES: NOT WINTER FRIENDLY.