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!!
Please visit this location between 8 AM - 8 PM.
The town of Ossian has had three town halls, all located on the same property.
On February 1, 1880, it was voted to ask the Livingston County Board of Supervisors at the next annual session to borrow $500 on credit for the purpose of building a “town house.”* The resolution was carried. At the annual town meeting held at Ossian Center on April 6, 1880 it was voted to raise $500 to be used for the purpose of erecting a town house and buying a site for the same at or near the center of the town.
On July 3, 1880, the building and furnishing of all materials for a town house was let to Elias Geiger for $765.00. The first annual meeting held at the new town house in the Town of Ossian was held April 5, 1881.
This town house burned down on May 26, 1932 when the Teeter and Newton store caught fire. A new town hall was built in August 1932 at same location and a Grange hall was also built next to it and finished by December 1932.
The officers of the Saunders Foundation with E. Philip Saunders and his wife, Carole M., president, approached the Town Board with a possibility of the foundation financing the construction of a new town hall. The Grange had closed its doors several years earlier, and both old Grange and town hall buildings were taken down. Construction was started on the new town hall building on August 3, 1992 and the building was ready for occupancy in December 1992.
Source: Rhea Walker, Ossian Town Historian *The term “town house” rather than town hall was used in the town board minutes.
Thanks to the Town of Ossian for permission to place this cache and to the Ossian Town Clerk for suggestion of where to place it!
Today, you are a bug and you seek your friend. You fly from the parking log to the building, through the entryway, first set of doors, which is always unlocked. Yes, we have permission to enter, no one will swat you! Find your friend to the right, in the package behind that can, log and stamp it, and replace it.
Reminder - this is a letterbox. The stamp and stamp pad are NOT to be traded or taken, but must remain with the geocache container.
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
