INDIANA SPIRIT
QUEST
"Colored Cemetery" Thorntown,
Indiana
"Established 1836"
Photos by DoverDuo
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 and a half, the quest has
grown to over two hundred forty caches hidden in twenty-three
Indiana counties, and the hiders have grown to ten cacher teams,
six of which are comprised of A Man and His Dog, one of which is A
Couple and Their Three Dogs ... and one who is a Dog and her Woman.
390 cacher teams have logged over 4,556
finds.
INDIANA
SPIRIT QUEST #280
”PC Correct
or Incorrect?"
This cache
will surely raise some issues regarding history and political
correctness, past and present. There are at least 27 people buried
here. Most of the original markers are gone because they were
wooden? Interesting the cemetery was established in 1836, however
on the listing for the cemetery
(http://www.bccn.boone.in.us/tpl/genealogy/Cemeteries/colorcemetery.pdf)
the earliest date of death was 1882. No records were kept before
that year? So then how many people are really buried here? Maybe
more answers can be found at the Thorntown Heritage Museum located
at 124 W. Main St. (State road 47) Thorntown. The Thorntown
Heritage Museum is open Fridays 4-7 PM; Saturdays 11-5, and Sundays
1-4 PM, holiday Mondays 1-4 PM, Wednesdays 11-4 PM. Main Exhibit
Gallery, May through September.
The cache container is
a 35mm film container. Please leave it at least as well concealed,
if not better, than you found it. If you find fallen or worn US
flags at the graves of veterans, please take a moment to upright or
replace them. Dispose of worn US flags in a respectable manner. If
you find the coordinates to be a little off, do not hesitate to
post a waypoint with your log. As always, be respectful, and cache
in, trash out.
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you by the following fellows of GEOISQ*: The SixDogTeam, Kodiak
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