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!!
This is a cemetery, so daylight hours only.
Bisbee or Bisbeetown, as it was called by the inhabitants, was in the northwestern part of the town of Ossian. It was a small settlement similar to Ossian Centre. It was first settled about the year 1816. Among the first settlers were Jesse Bagley and Heman Orton, the latter coming in 1813. They engaged in farming and shingle making. Luther Bisbee, for whom the settlement was named, was a Revolutionary War pensioner. He came there from Massachusetts in March, 1819, and built the first saw-mill.
Luther Bisbee I purchased the land on which the West View Cemetery rests when he came to Ossian. He later gave this portion of the land to his daughter Sally and her husband, Isaac Consalus. They donated the land for a cemetery which was first called Consalus Cemetery.
In the beginning, Denton Road split the cemetery in two but the road is abandoned now. The Denton family had their own private cemetery in the middle section, but in 1929 the cemetery was incorporated and became one.
In 1978, the cemetery received a plot of land from Margaret Gary which was also incorporated by the cemetery. The oldest veteran buried there is Luther Bisbee I, a veteran of the American Revolutionary War. John Runyon, a Civil War veteran who was killed at Gettysburg, is also buried in the cemetery along with veterans from World War I, World War II, Korean War and Vietnam War.
Thanks to the Town of Ossian for permission to place this cache! Also, thanks to the caretakers for suggestions on where to hide the cache!
You may park at the top of the cemetery or along the road, but please be careful, as the road can be busy.
Pretend you are a busy bee (in honor of the Bisbee family). First, you fly up to the top right corner of the cemetery (cache coordinates) to visit the Bisbee plots to pay your respects there. Find the one with a METAL MARKER for the war in which he served. After you solve the puzzle, BUZZ over to the final.
Final coordinates are N 42 33.LUT, W 77 47.HER, where
L = number of words on METAL MARKER
U = number of arms and legs plus the number of hats on METAL MARKER
T = number of vowels in first word (count the y) on METAL MARKER
H = count of the number of symbols most repeated on the METAL MARKER and subtract the number of A's and O's in both words on METAL MARKER
E = number of letters in second word on METAL MARKER times two
R = number of syllables in first word on METAL MARKER
You can validate your puzzle solution with certitude.
For those caching without access to a geochecker - yes, the cache is in the cemetery.
REMINDER: This is a letterbox cache. The stamp and the stamp pad are NOT to be taken or traded. They remain with the cache.
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
