This is one of the caches available on the Wayne County Bicentennial trail! The purpose of this project is to highlight local Wayne County History and share geocaching with folks that may know nothing about it! Your job is to go find this cache 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! Permission has been given to place a cache here by the town supervisor and historian. You are looking for a plastic food storage container.
Read the clue if you want to! There is parking alongside the road.
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 or download it at www.waynecounty200.com
The Passport Program is planned to start around May 1st and go to November 1st.
| Historic narrative: |
|
The Huron Grange, Patrons of Husbandry No. 124 was chartered in 1874 when members met in schools and homes. The Grange Hall building was constructed in 1884 and remained a center of agricultural community engagement for over 75 years. In 1971, the building was sold by the New York State Grange to the Town of Huron for one dollar. The town has maintained it since. Former Huron Historian, Carol Flint was instrumental in securing and preserving the structure by clearing the grounds of brush, painting the exterior, and installing a new roof. As it goes with all buildings, regular maintenance is critical to a building’s longevity.
 
Nearly 40 years later, in 2015, in need of repair and a little tender loving care, the Huron Grange Hall was listed by the Landmark Society of Western New York on the organization’s “Five to Revive” list, which acknowledges significant historical structures worthy of restoring, preserving, and repurposing. A 2015 grant from the Landmark Society provided funds for a building site report to be completed for the structure. The site report provides the town with a guideline for appropriate methods of preservation and suggested project options. The mission of the Town of Huron has been to continue moving forward with the preservation of the Grange building for the short-term benefit of more local community use and the long-term benefit of securing and stabilizing a historic building and site for future generations.
|