For your protection and the protection of others, please use gloves and/or hand sanitizer before and after handling each cache.
This cache is placed as part of the 2020 Taconic Region Geocaching Challenge. The NYS Parks Saratoga-Capital Region and the Central Region will be hosting a similar challenge!! Find 45 challenge caches in the Taconic Region and stamp your passport to earn a trackable geo-coin. Ten caches found in the Sara-Cap and/or Central Region Challenge can be used toward the Taconic Challenge. Please visit https://parks.ny.gov/parks/details.aspx to print your passport.
Be sure to check the Jay Heritage Center website for updated information. https://parks.ny.gov/historic-sites/39/details.aspx
This cache contains a unique stamp which must stay with the cache. Use this stamp to mark your passport. This stamp is NOT a trade item.
American Founding Father John Jay spent his boyhood here, on a farm with views reaching from Boston Post Road to Long Island Sound. After Jay's death in 1829, the property was passed down to his older son, Peter Augustus Jay. The farmhouse where John Jay grew up was razed by Peter Augustus in 1836, and replaced in 1838 by the Greek Revival mansion that dominates the site today.
In the early 20th Century, the property was owned by Werner and Grace van Norden, who experimented with inter-breeding horses and zebras to create an animal called a zebroid. (When that sentence becomes relevant during your exploration of the property, you will know you are near the cache.)
The parking coordinates shown below are for the entrance drive. Follow the driveway to the main parking lot.