***This is one of the caches available on the Wayne County Bicentennial trail! Your job is to go find it and open it and record your name on the log paper inside. You can also trade items that are in the geocache with items of your own if you want. Then put it back in place for the next visitor! You are looking for a small magnetic container - YOU DO NOT NEED TO LEAVE THE ROADWAY, please be respectful of posted private property nearby. If you're participating in the Bicentennial Passport program, please punch the correct area on the passport for this geocache and leave the punch in the cache container. You can get a paper passport at the public libraries in Wayne County. ***
The program goes from May 1st to November 1st.
Visit www.WayneCounty200.com for more information!
The Wayne County Historic Sites project was designed to document locations of interest to historians, genealogists, and those interested in local history.
Assigned site #06-028 is St. Patrick’s Cemetery - perched quietly on a picturesque hill, overlooking the Erie Canal on a (now unmarked) side road (formerly known as Old Quaker Rd.) just off Route 350 in Macedon, NY.
This photo was taken almost certainly in the early to mid-1800’s, and, as the Macedon Historical Society notes, “…was taken just south of the current location of the Macedon Fire Department and Lock 30, facing north/north-east. St. Patrick's Cemetery is in the left background (note the evergreens, some of which are still there today, and the gravestones). Quaker Rd and the railroad run across the photo in the background.”
While often in a state of semi-disrepair, the iron gates still exist, welcoming visitors to enter. This photo shows the gates in better days when cemetery maintenance was still ongoing.
Links of interest include a roster of cemetery residents as of the 1940s:
https://wayne.nygenweb.net/cemeteries2/stpatsmac.html
And a searchable list, with many headstone photos:
https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/66166/memorial-search
While you’re here, also check out nearby cache “Masseth’s Journey”:
https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GCKF20