Stone House II Traditional Cache
rayt333: This is second cache stolen from here so time to archive it, maybe someone else will place one here
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This is located on the Stone House trail loop at Salt Fork park.
This cache is located just off the Stone House trail which is located in the Salt Fork state park. The cache is in a .30 ammo can. Due to heavy tree cover the accuacy of my GPS was only 32 feet, so keep this in mind while looking.
The Stone House is now open to vistors after being completely renovated.
Built early in the 19th Century, the Kennedy Stone House proved to be alone among original buildings to survive the creation of Salt Fork State Park in 1967.
Having fallen into severe disrepair, the building was restored over the past four years through the efforts of the Friends of the Kennedy Stone House and others.
The original one-story summer kitchen has been rebuilt. A courtyard adjacent to the summer kitchen and the back of the house has been added ... along with a recent project: Honor a Veteran.
The names of more than 550 veterans have been sandblasted into bricks that form a portion of the courtyard. The allotted space will allow for the inscription in the future of up to 750 additional names.
The Kennedy Stone House was home to several generations of Kennedy descendants ending with Don Kennedy, the great-grandson of the builder, who occupied it until 1966. The state of Ohio purchased the Kennedy property and surrounding lands to create Salt Fork State Park, and in 1967, the valley below the house was impounded to create Salt Fork Lake. Today, the house overlooks the lake and is nestled in the woods, accessible only by foot or by boat. The Kennedy Stone House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975, signifying its importance to history.
The Kennedy Stone House is forty feet long and eighteen feet wide, built of stone blocks up to nine feet long and fourteen inches in width and height. The blocks used in the construction of the house were finely crafted and tightly fitted, exhibiting the kind of superior workmanship that has become something of a lost art in our present age. The house and a stone fruit cellar nearby were constructed for a total price of about $600 — quite a bargain, even in those days.
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3. ubyybj ubyr va gerr