This cache is in the State Game Lands - PLEASE WEAR ORANGE! And consider saving these caches for a Sunday, there's no hunting in PA on Sundays.
This Cache contains part of the code needed to solve the Ghosts Of Alvira Mystery Cache.
This is the 3rd cemetery in the game lands. Although it's not far from the road, many people do not realize it is here.
Be prepared for high grass, the cache is well off the path.
All of this area is part of the former town of Alvira.
After the attack on Pearl Harbor in December of 1941, the United States was determined to ramp up production of necessary war materials, at all costs.
In 1942 the federal government, through eminent doman, took over the entire town. Dozens of homes were torn down, with nearly 500 people being displaced.
"My grandmother's mother was actually carried off her front porch and her house was torn down by bulldozers," says historian Paul C. Metzeger.
"They were told at the meeting at the stone church that they were going to have to give up their property for a war effort," says Steve Huddy, author of "The Land." "The war department was very vague about what they were going to do."
In a matter of eleven months, Alvira was gone, replaced with 150 concrete bunkers. Each one, 47 feet in diameter, 24 feet high, constructed entirely of concrete. It's purpose- to hold thousands of pounds of TNT.
The land was never returned to the property owners.