“INDIANA SPIRIT
QUEST”
The Indiana Spirit Quest series of
geocaches will take you to a number of historic cemeteries
built by Hoosier Pioneers. In just over a year, the quest has grown
to over a hundred eighty caches hidden in twenty-one Indiana
counties, and the hiders have grown to six cacher teams, six of
which are comprised of A Man and His Dog... and one who is a
Dog and her Woman. JPLUS 14 has set a record
for one-day ISQ finds on 4-16-05 at 64! (PRAIRIE PARTNERS has 55);
264 cacher teams have logged over 2,850
finds.
Pioneer cemetery Photos by LEAD DOG)
INDIANA SPIRIT QUEST
#188
”GILMORE GIRLS"
Welcome to the German Baptist Cemetery in
North Manchester, Chester Township, Wabash County, Indiana. We
don't have a lot of informatiuon on this place. The Church is next
door. It is neat and clean.
What? Oh don't worry about that. Nobody
will ever ask, I guarantee it.
MAG
GERMAN BAPTIST BRETHREN, or GERMAN BRETHREN, a sect of
American Baptists which originated in Germany, and whose members
are popularly known in the United States as Dunkers, Dunkards or
Tunkers, corruptions of the German verb tunken, to dip, in
recognition of the sects continued adherence to the practice of
trine immersion. The sect was the outcome of one of the many
Pietistic movements of the i7th century, and was founded in 1708 by
Andrew Mack of Swartzenau, Germany, and seven of his followers,
upon the general issue that both the Lutheran and Reformed churches
were taking liberties ~with the literal teachings of the
Scriptures.
The new sect was scarcely organized in Germany when its
members were compelled by persecution to take refuge in Holland,
whence they emigrated to Pennsylvania, in small companies, between
1719 and 1729.
The first congregation in America was organized on Christmas
Day 1723 by Peter Becker at Germantown, Pennsylvania, and in 1743
Christopher Sauer, one of the sects first pastors, and a printer by
trade, printed the first Bible (a few copies of which are still in
existence) published in a European language in America. From
Pennsylvania the sect spread chiefly westward, and, after various
vicissitudes, caused by defections and divisions due to doctrinal
differences, were most numerous in Pennsylvania, Maryland,
Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, Kansas
and North Dakota.
The cache container is a
35mm film can. BYOP. Park with Extreme care.If you find a
fallen US flag, please stick it back in the ground. As always,
please be respectful, and cache in, trash out.
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DON'T BE FOOLED BY dumb IMITATIONS!! None
genuine without this official SixDogTeam seal. Digital photographs
taken by Lead Dog, (C) 2005 by RikSu Outfitters unless otherwise
noted.
"Indiana Spirit Quest"
is brought to you by the following special fellows of GEOISQ*:
The SixDogTeam, Kodiak Kid, THE
SHADOW, Team Shydog, Rupert2, Torry, ~Mystery Dog~, and Team Tigger
International. If you are interested in spreading the quest to your
neck of the woods AND WOULD LIKE TO JOIN US, email SixDogTeam with
your caching resume and at least 3 current
references.
*Grand Exalted Order of
the Indiana Spirit Quest
NIGHT CACHING IS NOT ALLOWED ON
ISQ'S