Welcome to Livingston County’s Bicentennial GeoTrail!
My name is Find R. Fox. I’ll be your guide to super-sleuthing the hides at these amazing, historical locations all around our beautiful 200-year-old county!
To make your travel through history a bit easier, imagine yourself in a Time Machine (your best mode of transportation will do). Set the dial (your gps unit) to the first year (coordinates) listed below, check the waypoints for Parking and push the navigate button! Whirl your way there then switch your coordinates as needed to navigate to the geocache to sniff out the container and sign the log sheet. Good Luck & Enjoy the journey!!
Cache is NOT at the posted coordinates! You must solve the puzzle first - it's relatively easy! Then, go to the cache coordinates to substitute the information found there to complete the puzzle and find the final.
The Nunda Historical Society has operated the Nunda Museum and Rose Shave Gallery since 2002. Located in the Historical Building on Portage Road, the Museum and Gallery have played an important role in the Society's mission to collect, preserve, present, and promote Nunda area history.
Visitors will find a variety of artifacts and displays representing two hundred years of Nunda History. The art gallery displays the work of the remarkable local artist, Rose Shave. (The museum MAY be closed due to COVID.)
Nunda’s gifted painter, Rose M. Shave, was born in 1848, one of six children of William and Elizabeth Shave. The family lived at 20 South State Street.
In 1875, Rose attended Ingham University, the first women’s college in the United States, located in Leroy, NY. Here she was an art student of Professor Lemuel M. Wiles, prominent artist and native of Perry, NY. Professor Wiles had studios at both Ingham and Silver Lake that attracted students from all over the United States. In April 1876, an article in the “Nunda News” said of Rose: “The proficiency she displayed in painting led to her engagement as a teacher after the first year in this noted art school.” This was just one of many references to Miss Shave in the “News.”
Rose’s sister, Belle, was also an artist. By 1884, Belle had joined classes with Rose and completed a two-year course in art school in Philadelphia. Rose conducted art classes here in Nunda during vacations. For five weeks in the summer of 1884, Rose offered lessons on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays from 9 AM – Noon or 1:30 – 4 PM for $1 per day. In August 1884, seventy paintings by Rose and eleven of her Nunda pupils were shown at a reception attended by 160 people. The “News” reported this event as “a notable display of fine paintings.” The “News” also mentioned that Rose “sold a handsome screen to a Philadelphia party for $75.” ($75 in 1884 equals about $2,000 in 2020).
While Rose taught at Ingham for 16 years, she replaced Professor Wiles as Director of the College of Fine Arts in 1887.
The summer of 1888 found Rose studying in Paris at the prestigious Academy Julian with Professor Bouguereau and T. Robert Fleury. The following is from the Rochester Union in December 1889: “An informal art reception was given by Miss Rose M. Shave, principal of Ingham College of Fine Arts, at the college Friday evening. The display of work was remarkable, chiefly for variety, elegance, and originality of design.” The article continued with glowing reviews of numerous studies of watercolor and oils, including local landscapes and some from the eastern part of NY. “A woodland scene, ‘The Path Through the Woods’ was a meritorious piece of work.”
In November 1889, the “News” states: “Misses Belle and Rose Shave were awarded premiums for best oil paintings at the Danbury (CT) fair, among many competitors, which is a decided credit to these skillful artists.”
In 1892, Ingham closed and Rose returned to Nunda where she and her sister Belle had just completed building a residence and studio at 49 East Street. The sisters worked in oil, watercolor, and crayon, but were mainly noted as watercolorists.
Belle died in 1893, at about 45 years of age, but Rose continued to conduct painting classes at her home for all levels of students, including advanced instruction for other art teachers. In 1895, the “News” noted a “South Dakota woman here to study painting under RS.”
By 1895, critics ranked Rose third in the United States in Watercolor paintings of flowers. In 1898, the Academy of Design in NY accepted two of her paintings for exhibition. She also exhibited paintings around the country at places such as Cambridge Valley and Danbury fairs in New England.
Miss Shave lived in her East Street home until 1925, when she died at the age of 76. A collection of her paintings was on display in the Bell Memorial Library in 1926. To this day, fortunate owners treasure their Rose Shave paintings.
The Rose M. Shave collection at the Nunda Museum has grown to 50 works of art, including 25 watercolors, 19 oils, 2 porcelain objects, and a miniature portrait pin.
Thanks to the Genesee Valley Greenway Manager, Kristine Uribe, for permission to place this cache! Permit #GVGSP21-4. Applied for Renewal permit in 9/22. Finally received Renewal permit in 3/23. New Permit #GVGSP23-2, expires 3/25.
Instead of drawing or painting like Rose Shave, you will need to solve a nonogram - in effect, creating your own drawing of a solution one block at a time. NOTE: You will need to add N 42 and W 77 to the solution of the nonogram. Besides numbers, you will also find A, B, C, and D in the nonogram, as explained below.
How to solve a nonogram - http://www.pro.or.jp/~fuji/java/puzzle/nonogram/knowhow0-1-eng.html
AFTER solving the nonogram, travel to the posted coordinates to find an historical artifact with a flower on it in the gazebo to get the information to complete the puzzle.
A = last digit of year - first digit of year
B = position in alphabet of the last letter of first name
C = last digit of age
D = fifth line, position in alphabet of the second letter
You can validate your puzzle solution with certitude.
NOTE: Final is on the greenway, hours for which are 6 AM - 10 PM. If you are not using the checker, which will show parking coordinates, then use Final Coordinates, but subtract 50 from North and add 77 to West for parking coordinates. Sum of North digits plus 6 equals the sum of the West digits.
Found cache partially uncovered. Please remember that other people use the greenway, so caches should NOT generally be exposed for all to see. Please replace as good or better than you found it!
This cache is 1 of 36 caches comprising the Livingston County Bicentennial GeoTrail (LivCo200) placed in the summer of 2021 in honor of Livingston County’s Bicentennial by members of the local geocaching group called the Bee Hive. For more information about Livingston County’s Bicentennial, visit the County Historian’s Bicentennial web page on the Livingston County New York website at https://www.livingstoncounty.us/1115/County-Bicentennial
