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!!
Park hours are listed as 10 AM - 10 PM
Ricky Greene Memorial Park was donated to the town of Conesus in 1976 by William and Betty Greene in honor of their son who had recently died of leukemia at the age of 23. The 17 acre lot was eventually developed into a recreation facility with sports fields, a pavilion, a playground, with a log cabin as its centerpiece.
According to local records, the log cabin was built in 1816 by Isaac Kellerman. The cabin was constructed at the northwest corner of what is now (2021) Stagecoach Road and Jones Hill Road. In 1976, new owners of the Kellerman property offered the cabin to the town of Conesus on the condition that it be removed from the site. An effort was organized to move the building to the town’s new Ricky Greene Memorial Park.
In 1978, the log cabin was disassembled, relocated to the Ricky Greene Memorial Park and re-assembled. The building became the headquarters of the local historical society called the Ganeasos History Keepers. The Kellerman Log Cabin in Conesus is a rare surviving example of an early nineteenth century log cabin in the northern Genesee Valley region of New York. Despite its relocation in 1978 to save it from demolition, the building retains a high level of integrity.
Conesus is also famous for their Turtle stones, some of which are displayed in this park. What are Turtle stones? Turtle stones are a type of sedimentary rock, called a concretion, which basically is a conglomeration (or collection) of sedimentary rock glued together by more sediment which, as their name implies, resemble a turtle. It is believed that Conesus, NY, was the first place to recognize Turtle Stones, which is why they are sometimes called Conesus Stones.
Thanks to the Town of Conesus and the Ga-ne'-a-sos History Keepers for permission to place this cache!
Let's pretend that you are a turtle, who has been carried away from his home and must return. You move slowly, but with purpose.
You follow a narrow stone path past a log cabin on one side and 2 symbols of liberty each with a turtlestone nearby on the other side. You continue down that stone path until you spot your next marker.
You adjust your path to head towards the side of a small building with a heart.
Next, you change course to head towards and between wooden play structures. You do not stop to play, because you are a turtle, not an engineer, pirate, or construction worker.
Instead, you follow the winding path down into the woods towards a steady flowing stream. (You may cross a short spring seep first.)
You turn to follow the water flowing downstream. As a turtle, you might walk in the creek. That's OK, too.
You keep following the stream, until you see your path - a single tall tree that leans across the water from the park side of the stream, while the branches are high, causing you to crane your neck way up, they point to the wooded side of the stream. You can step on a large flat stone to a small rocky island, then more steps again up the bank to the other side. You pause a moment.
The stream curves and you follow it on the woods side of the stream.
You walk past a tree leaning towards you from the park side of the stream.
Choosing your own path, you stride past two trees next to each other, both leaning away from you towards the park side of the stream. One is much smaller than the other.
You continue. Then, another large tree leans away from you towards the park side of the stream, then leans back towards the wooded side to reach the sign (like a giant backwards C), again a long neck crane up.
Just past that last leaner tree, you see at least a dozen very large rocks in the stream, flanked either side by fallen trees.
You go past these VERY large rocks and then turn by the tall, fallen tree whose top branches reach across the water to touch the ground on the park side, almost like a bridge. This tree also has a fork overtop those VERY large stones.
Old School
You walk beside that tall, fallen tree away from the stream and towards its base at the edge of a hill. Towards the base of the tree, you see several small white fungi growing along it. There is now also another small tree that has fallen next to it at an angle.
Ahead, at the base of that tall, fallen tree, you see two trees together.
You are home! You can rest.
If you go past some trees with wire in them over 6 feet hig
New School
In the stream near the tree described above, there are coordinates for the final. Hope they line up for you!
REMINDER: This is a Letterbox cache. The stamp and stamp pad stay with the cache. They are NOT swag to be taken or traded.
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
