Fly and the Family Stone Traditional Cache

   This cache is located on private property but easily accessed as it also is a family business location. You are able to park in the drive but please try to stay on one side or the other so others can get around you to enter or exit the drive. PLEASE DO NOT DAMAGE ANY OF THE SIGNS OR "HEADSTONE".

Kistlercrest Farms is one of Mason County's Centennial Farms. The farm has been in the Kistler family for well over a hundred years. If interested in learning more about the local agribusiness history of Mason County you can access information by following the directions on the post near the geocache site. One thing that is not covered in that informative recording is one of those most admired elements to the farm and other properties in close proximity. So many visitors marvel at the beautiful stonework on the Kistler home. The art of laying stone is slowing fading away much like the "family farm". As you look around you can see the home across the road was also built by a Kistler family member as well as the beautiful home around the corner on West Kistler Rd that is currently being renovated by new owners and definitely worth the short drive to see.

As for the home at this location, Ron, the present owner states, "The stonework was built in the teens and early twenties of the 20th century. Great Grandpa John made several trips to the shores of Lake Michigan with horse and wagon in search of the perfect stones to build the stairway and pillars at the front porch. My uncle recalls "looking" for the stones to build the flower pots on the corners of the stairway. No matter how hard he searched and watched his Grandpa select the "perfect" stones, none he picked up were ever quite good enough"