This Cache is placed as part of the 2024 Taconic Region Geocaching Challenge. The NYS Parks Saratoga-Capital Region and the Central Region will be hosting a similar challenge. Find 45 challenge caches in the Taconic Region and stamp your passport to earn a trackable geo-coin. Ten caches found in the Sara-Cap and/or Central Region Challenge can be used toward the Taconic Challenge. This cache contains a unique stamp which must stay with the cache. Use this stamp to mark your passport. This stamp is NOT a trade item.
Please visit the Taconic Region webpage to print your passport. https://parks.ny.gov/documents/regions/2024TaconicRegionGeocacheChallenge.pdf
For park fees, directions, maps and park updates, download the New York State Parks Explorer App to your mobile device and check out the details for each park.
Welcome to Olana! If you’re unfamiliar with the grounds, a park map can be found at
https://www.olana.org/park-map/
For this cache, you are looking for a small lock-n-lock.
Olana was the home and studio of artist Frederic Edwin Church, who was one of the major figures in the Hudson River School of landscape painting. Frederic was born on May 4th, 1826 in Hartford Connecticut, the second of four children. His father, Joseph was a successful silversmith and founder of insurance company, Aetna. His mother, Eliza Janes was from a prominent Hartford family. Frederic died on April 7th, 1900. In 1859, Frederic met his soon to be wife Isabel Mortimer Carnes, at the New York exhibition of his “Heart of the Andes”. Isabel was born on November 10th, 1836 in Paris, France to American parents. They married on June 14th, 1860 and were together until her death on May 12th, 1899.
This year's challenge caches are dedicated to each of the 6 children Frederic and Isabel had together. Herbert Edwin Church, their first child was born October 29th, 1862 and died young on March 18th, 1865 due to diphtheria.