THE LONELY SOLDIER Traditional Cache

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ckx2: We are never able to get out here anymore, so this one has to got the trip....sorry!

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Hidden : 2/27/2005
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

Cache is located in the sandhills north of Spalding.

This cache memorializes a lone Civil War veteran who homesteaded on the adjoining 160 acres in 1886. George Hamilton was a hero in the Civil War, wounded and not in the best of health when he bought his homestead for $1.25 per acre. He was given a disability discharge in 1863 in St. Louis, and died a year after his homestead was filed. There is one other stone in the cemetery, and the area was 'witched' in later years and shows the graves of 3 children and 24 adults-whose probable wooden cross markers have disintegrated. The Rosedale (or Mud Creek) Church was a soddy structure nearby that burned during a prairie fire. After being rebuilt, it was moved to nearby Bartlett, where it burned down in 1970. The cache container is a film cannister with log and pencil-no trade items. Please be respectful of the area.

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