Indiana Spirit Quest #11: The Corn Field Traditional Cache

This cache is now offset...oops, now it's not.

The Indiana Spirit Quest series of geocaches will take you to a number of small, rural, historic cemeteries built by Hoosier Pioneers in central Indiana. If you’re clever, you can map out a route and get a bunch of ‘em in one trip!

Welcome to Concord Cemetery in Chester Township, Wabash County Indiana. It is located in the middle of a Corn Field (Or bean field, depending on what year it is, as pointed out by Team Earthquakers), but has a fenced off access path leading to it. (There is one other Wabash County cemetery in the middle of a field, but with no access). There are a lot of Civil War Vets buried here, but your Spirit Quest at Concord is to seek out the grave site of a Spanish American War Veteran :

There at least four Spanish American War vets resting here in addition to this soldier. Make sure the coordinates take you to the right one--His marker is no longer able to be read. Then march about seventy feet due east...

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The war in the Philippines claimed four times as many American lives as the war with Spain did. Few Americans, however, rejoiced at the victory. There were no heroes. No parades greeted the returning troops. For many, this war seemed to contradict some basic American values.

"I have been criticized a good deal about the Philippines," Presidsent McKinley said, "but I don't deserve it. The truth is . . . they came to us as a gift from the gods."

"Congratulations," Andrew Carnegie wrote to a leading expansionist. "You seem to have about finished your work of civilizing the Filipinos. It is thought that about eight thousand of them have been completely civilized and sent to heaven. I hope you like it."

It was the war in the Philipines that occasioned the U.S. Army to adopt the more powerful .45 Automatic Colt Pistol as the regular issue sidearm for officers, as opposed to less powerful revolvers. Drug-crazed Philipino natives, when shot with lesser calier weapons could still fall forward and strike deadly blows with their machetes. The .45's knocked them Backwards...So it goes.

The cache container used to be a plastic 35mm film canister, but all that has changed. Please replace the cache camouflage when you’re done. If you find a fallen U.S. flag, please stick it back in the ground, preferably next to a Vet’s Marker.

UPDATE, Nov. 2007: Cache is now located at coordinates listed above.

Dogs Allowed Available year-round Less than 500 ft. from car to cache No restrooms available Check Tide Before Caching

Good Luck from SixDogTeam!!

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NOTICE, 7-29-05: NIGHT CACHING IS NOT ALLOWED ON ISQ's. LOGS INDICATING CACHING AFTER DARK WILL BE DELETED.