My 9 year old daughter, Lucy, and I are placing this nice sized cache to be easily found for kids who cache! We also want to see a TB Hotel locally so we made one! We live within viewing distance of the cache and may wave to you if we see you!
Valcour Brewing is right next to the cache - PLEASE be stealthy so that this TB Hotel remains.
Grab a drink or snack next door or even drive across the one way bridge across the road (seasonal) to see a little private, yet public, rock beach. Watch the train amble through or go for a walk on the bike path.
Please leave some great photos in the comments - we would love to see who is visiting!
The history of the Old Stone Barracks
The "Old Stone Barracks" is the last remaining structure of the proposed quadrangle of an early U.S. Army barracks built in Plattsburgh, New York in 1838. Although troops had been stationed in Plattsburgh from roughly 1812 to 1825, no permanent military installation had been constructed, with the men often housed in dilapidated and inadequate log structures left over from the War of 1812. A permanent Army garrison was established on the strategically important Lake Champlain corridor, which for centuries had been a route for invasion.
Of the four main buildings initially planned for the Plattsburgh post, only two were ever constructed, an officer's barracks and an enlisted men's barracks (the "Old Stone Barracks") which formed an "L" shape, as you can see in the picture to the left. The main barracks were built of native limestone transported to the site from a nearby quarry. The enlisted barracks originally contained 18 rooms, several of which on the first floor were utilized as a post hospital, dispensary, Company office, Sergeant's room, Company kitchen, and mess hall. Four small storm-sheds and the hospital bathroom also extended off of the first floor on the backside of the building.
The buildings were used by the Army for nearly a century. Due to a fire, the officer's quarters, in which Lt. Ulysses S. Grant once stayed, were torn down by the U.S. Air Force during the winter of 1963. The remaining building, the 200-foot long, two story "Old Stone Barracks," remained mostly empty after the early 1960s and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. In 2014, Valcour Brewing Company purchased the building with the hope of adding a new chapter to the historic landmark.