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 from 8 AM to 8 PM.
This museum is named for Lima's first Historian, Tennie Beecher Burton, who helped to establish Lima's earliest museum in 1959 in the Lima Town Hall. The museum was moved to its present location on Rochester Street when this beautiful home was donated by Belle Chaplin Tenny to the Lima Historical Society, when it had been formed in 1973.
The house was built in the 1830's but purchased in 1856 by physician, Dr. Samuel B. Ellis, who remodeled it in the Italianate style in 1863. He may have used part of the house for his medical practice. The house was purchased from the Ellis family in 1892 by James H. Crouse, and later, in 1906 by Belle Chapin Tenny, as a home for herself and her parents, and later for herself and her husband, Lavere Tenny. She resided here until her death in 1976, giving piano lessons for many of the town's children in the front parlour. A graduate of Genesee Wesleyan Seminary and Syracuse University, she also traveled around the town's small district schools teaching music. She died at the age of 99.
Like many local history museums and societies, hours are limited. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the museum is closed. During more normal times, the museum is only opened Sundays 2-4 pm and only from June thru September.
Sources: Lima Historical Society website
Thanks to HFJohn and ElbaPatch for their assistance in placing this cache!
Thanks to the Lima Historical Society 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
