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 between 8 AM - dusk.
The Caledonia Fish Hatchery is nationally significant for its association with its founder, Seth Green, the “Father of Fish Culture.”
Seth Green grew up as an outdoor enthusiast in the small village of Carthage along the Genesee River near Rochester, learning fishing skills from his father and the local Seneca Indians.
Green established this facility along the cool waters of Big Spring Creek in 1864 where his improvements in artificial propagation of fish sparked a national movement to conserve America’s fish stock.
Caledonia was the first state fish hatchery and is considered the oldest commercial hatchery in the western hemisphere. Seth Green’s concern over depletion of fish led to the first state and federal regulations of the commercial fish industry in America.
From its earliest years, the Caledonia hatchery has attracted national and international attention and the site became the epicenter of the rapidly expanding American pisciculture.
Upon Green’s death in 1888 he was memorialized as a person of great original thought and his legacy has served as the foundation for developments in the fish conservation movement.
The Caledonia Fish Hatchery continues in the same role as it has for over 150 years. Operated by New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, the hatchery raises brown and rainbow trout with annual production of approximately 170,000 pounds.
The site was listed on the State and National Register of Historic Places in 2015.
Thanks to ElbaPatch and HFJohn for their assistance in trying to place this cache! (NOTE: a geocache may NOT be placed within 150 feet of an active train track.) Thanks to Lucky46 for the geocache 'container'!
Thanks to NYS DEC Fish Hatchery for their permission to place this cache!
There is absolutely NO TRESPASSING in the forest area. There are multiple signs. Please obey them.
Please visit this area between 8 AM and 9 PM.
Old School
Let's pretend that you are both an angler (or a fishing person) as well as a collector of letterbox stamps. You are drawn first to whichever one is closest. In this case, the stamp is closer.
Walk up to the listing coordinates to the sidewalk, so that the parking area is at your back, the mowed area is to one side and the road is to the other. You feel the tug in the direction that you are facing.
Walk away from the parking area and away from the train tracks down the sidewalk. The tug becomes stronger with every step that you take.
To the mown side, you will pass a goldfish over a rock. Keep walking as you feel the pull grow.
As you look beyond the goldfish over a rock, you see some trees in a row by the edge of the sidewalk. Start counting them. When you reach 6, the pull has grown very strong and you turn 45 degrees away from the road.
Your pace picks up as you pass a tree in the next row and head towards a lone tree with multiple trunks.
Find your perch, although it may not be the kind that you are expecting. Please be gentle with the container.
New School
While in the parking area, you will see the start of a path. There is a small yellow sign with green letters from which you will get your information for the final coordinates. Count lines starting from the top.
Final is at N 42 59.FIS, W 77 51.HED, where
F = the number of words on the 1st line
I = the number of words on the 5th line
S = the number of letters in the last word of the 7th line
H = the number of letters in the 1st word of the 8th line
E = the number of letters in the 1st word of the 4th line
D = the number of letters in the last word of the 12th line
If your solution looks like it would take you into the No Trespassing area - STOP! Check your information, because it is incorrect.
This is a letterbox cache. Please leave the stamp and stamp pad in the cache after your visit!
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
