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!!
Daylight hours only.
Clarissa Harlowe Barton, or Clara, as she wished to be called, is one of the most esteemed women in American history.
When the Civil War broke out, Clara secured permission to go wherever her services were needed. Visits to the battlefields revealed to her the urgent need for provisions to feed and care for the wounded soldiers. Her unwavering devotion earned her the title of Angel of the Battlefield.
Clara later established the Office of Correspondence with Friends of the Missing Men of the United States Army. She identified over 22,000 missing men and helped establish a national cemetery for Union soldiers who died in the Andersonville Prison in Georgia.
After the war, while recuperating in Europe, Clara went to the war zone with the International Red Cross when the Franco-Prussian War broke out in 1870. To protect herself, she fashioned a cross out of red ribbon, the newly accepted symbol of the organization.
Upon her return to the United States, Clara came to Dansville seeking respite at the Jackson Sanitarium. Finding her stay beneficial in body and spirit, she maintained a residence here for many years while continuing to lobby for the creation of an American Red Cross.
In 1881, the people of Dansville joined in support of Barton’s efforts and organized a meeting at Saint Paul’s Lutheran Church where the first Chapter of the American Red Cross was formed. Clara Barton led the American Red Cross as president the next 23 years.
This is an easy two part puzzle cache! You will go to the first American Red Cross building to get information from a sign and then will drive across town to find the final in a park (not on 390). You are looking for a Lock-n-Lock box that is big enough to hold small items to trade or trackables. Please look for the cache during daytime hours only.
To find the information needed for the final, please follow the sidewalk to the building side facing Elizabeth Street to go to the brown sign on the building that starts with "Given to Clara Barton..."
The final will be at the following coordinates:
N 42 3R.34E, W 077 42.D31 where
R = The number of children named on the plaque
E = The number of letters in the LAST name of the person the plaque is in memory of
D = The number of letters in the FIRST name of the person the plaque is in memory of
Stealth and patience may be needed at the final location, which at times can be quite busy with many muggles.
You can validate your puzzle solution with certitude.
For those not using the geochecker - the sum of the North Coordinates plus 4 equals the sum of the West Coordinates.
Thanks to LMalone and CMalone for their assistance with placing this cache!
Thanks to the Town of North Dansville for permission to place the cache in the area of the final location!
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
