Placeholder text. Good news! For 2018, we upgraded our geotrail to an official Geocaching GeoTour! Learn more about Pennsylvania's Clearfield County GeoTour, which offers a series of 5 related geocaching adventures: Forgotten Clearfield, Hometown Heroes, Waterways, Cemeteries, and Parks and Recreation. Codes are hidden within each cache. Collect 25 codes from across all 5 series and you qualify for a collectible prize. If you complete all 5 and have your passport validated, you can receive a trackable geocoin.
First stage is a Micro container, Check out the settler from Transylvania that is laid to rest at the final location, in the middle old part of the cemetery. In 1808, Dr. Samuel Coleman, the first practicing physician in Clearfield County,
settled in Penn Township. Although there were other settlers in the area around what is today Grampian, no name had been decided upon. Coleman named the land Grampian Hills because they reminded him of the Grampian Hills in his native Scotland. It was a fitting name, for there were many Scotch-Irish, Scottish, and English Quakers in the area. The Quakers were the first religious group in Penn Township with the first meeting being held in 1811 at the home of James Moore. In 1824, they were able to build a log meeting house on the site of the present Friend’s Cemetery on land donated by Mr. Moore. The building was destroyed by fire in 1847, but quickly rebuilt on the same site which was by then also used as a grave yard. Notably, the Quakers were dedicated to assisting runaway slaves; often employing them on their farms in the summer and helping them escape through the county. In 1885, the Borough of Pennville, named for William Penn, was incorporated in a part of Grampian Hills; but eventually it would come to be called simply Grampian Borough. The first postoffice was known as the Grampian Hills Post Office and operated from 1833 to 1892. In 1891, the Pennsylvania Railroad extended a passenger and freight line to Grampian – also carrying the mail for several years. In September 1900, Grampian was the first community in the county to have a rural mail service. The mail carrier was Mr. A.E. Spenser who bought a new 1914 Ford when it became available to replace his horse and delivered the mail until 1932. In 1895, Nora Waln, a world famous reporter and author, was born in Grampian. The daughter of Thomas Lincoln Wall, the Boggs Township School Superintendent and a county author, Nora went to live in China in December 1920 where she wrote a book about her life there, publishing it in the 1930s. During World War II, she was a war correspondent, having moved to Germany in 1934 with her husband, an English Diplomat. During the Korean Conflict, she was once more a war correspondent and was assigned to the front lines. Throughout her life she wrote many books as well as articles for magazines and newspapers worldwide. She even wrote for the local Progress. She spent her last years in Southern Spain where she died on September 27, 1964.