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.
The Dansville Area Historical Society (DAHS) was formally organized May 18, 1961 and granted a Provisional Charter in 1963 by the New York State Education Department. The society was granted an Absolute Charter by the state in 1969.
The DAHS museum opened in 1967, in the former rectory of the St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic Church, which had closed in 1961. The museum’s collections reflect the rich history of the area from pioneer days to modern times including items related to the Jackson Sanitarium, once the most famous water cure in the world, various large manufacturers such as Foster Wheeler and the Blum Shoe Factory, the nursery businesses that thrived in the region, canal and railroad history, and much more!
On June 4, 1989, at the annual meeting, the Dansville Area Historical Society unveiled the Dansville Hall of Fame. As many as 65 of the most noteworthy personages in the local history were nominated by a panel of experts, who then narrowed the list down to ten inductees. Those ten were Cornelius McCoy, Dansville’s first settler; Daniel P. Faulkner, after whom the village was named; Dr. James Caleb Jackson, founder of Our Home On The Hillside; Clara Barton, of Red Cross fame; A.O. Bunnell, journalist and publisher; F.A. Owen, creator of Instructor magazine; Dr. Frederick R. Driesbach, father of the Dansville hospital; Lynn E. Pickard, originator of the airport; William D. Conklin, author of several books on Dansville history; and former Village Historian Wilfred J. Rauber, the only living inductee.
In 1995, ten more names were added to the Hall of Fame: Charles Williamson, the land agent who established the location of Dansville; Col. Nathaniel Rochester, builder of the village’s first paper mill; Capt. William Perine, namesake of two village streets and creator of Washington Park; Dr. James Faulkner, the local political giant who helped bring a canal to Dansville; Dr. James H. Jackson, who built the Jackson Sanatorium (the famed “Castle on the Hill”); Pell W. Foster Sr., founder of Power Specialty/Foster Wheeler; Bernarr MacFadden, the father of Physical Culture; Thomas P. Reilly, inventor of Ra-Pid-Gro; Nicholas H. Noyes, who helped provide new homes for the Red Cross and the hospital; and Harold A Shay of Shay’s Service Inc., one of Dansville’s most dedicated civic servants.
This cache is in a nieghborhood area, so stealth will likely be necessary!
Thanks to CMalone and LMalone for their assistance in placing this cache!
Thanks to the Dansville Area Historical Society (DAHS) for their permission to place this 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
