For Love or Money
They say that love is more important than money but have you ever tried paying your bills with a hug?
Welcome to the Middletown OHIO New Discoveries GeoTour
We are excited for you to discover all of the things we love about our All American City! The New Discoveries GeoTour has 25 caches to find, all located in publicly accessible areas.
Cache Background
The “For Love or Money” cache is located outside of the Windamere building which is located in the heart of downtown Middletown. People used to gather here for money, now they gather for love!
The Windamere event venue is located in what was formerly the historic Oglesby Barnitz Bank building. Full of delicate plaster work, marble fireplaces, terrazzo floors, and multiple bank vaults, this building is a wonderful reflection of days gone by.
Back in the "Forties” (1840s that is!) Middletown's business center was a general store operated by two sturdy pioneers. George C. Barnitz came to Middletown in 1838 and began "keeping store" for Jacob Leibee. In 1840 he, along with William Young, opened a business for themselves. Two years later in partnership with William B. Oglesby, a mercantile and grain-buying business was begun in an old dwelling house at the corner of Third Street (Central Avenue) and Main Street. This store immediately became headquarters for farmers, who often deposited their money with the firm for safe-keeping. This custom grew to such proportions that in 1850, these two merchants opened a bank, discontinuing the store at the same time. The institution was known as "Oglesby & Barnitz, Bankers," and was the first banking organization in Butler County, now the building is known as the Windamere.
Cache Description
A medium sized cache which might require some problem solving. Take a page from bank robbers and break the code.
PLEASE do not remove the stamp for passports - this is a part of game play used by all players!