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Indiana Spirit Quest #270: Old Trinity Traditional Cache

Hidden : 7/15/2005
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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EDITED 04-15-2009

“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 a year and a half, the quest has grown to over two hundred seventy caches hidden in twenty-seven Indiana counties, and two Ohio counties, and the hiders have grown to ten cacher teams, nine of which of which are comprised of Dogs and their Humans. Over 480 cacher teams have logged over 5,400 finds. One cache machine found 102 ISQ caches in a single day (daylight hours only).


(Photos by LaMont Cranston)
INDIANA SPIRIT QUEST #270
”Old Trinity!"

Welcome to Trinity Cemetery, Salem Twp., Steuben County.

Listen to what the Shadow says:

This was known as Dutch Mills Cemetery at one time. The most obvious thing you will see here is the decrepit old church house which has been abandoned for many years. (unsafe to enter!)

This is a mid size cemetery that is still active. A newer chain link fence surrounds the area. It is nicely maintained. There is parking in front of the gate.

It looks to have had an early beginning, with slow, but steady growth. I found graves of veterans of the Civil War, WWI, WWII & Vietnam here.

One nice thing I saw was an older marker, Civil War, that the small, lightly engraved inscription at the bottom was quite legible; usually this area is eroded away. Many of the Civil War era veterans markers here are illegible or have no verifying inscriptions, just the bronze flagholders. --SHADOW

FIND LOGS ON THIS CACHE THAT INDICATE NIGHT CACHING WILL BE DELETED WITHOUT NOTICE!

The cache container is a camo'd match holder. BYOP. .The cache is not located near a grave... If you find a fallen US flag, please stick it back in the ground. As always, please be respectful, and cache in, trash out. XXXXXXXXX

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"Indiana Spirit Quest" is brought to you by the following fellows of GEOISQ*: The SixDogTeam (Earthdog Patrick, Lead Dog, Wheel Dog) Kodiak Kid, THE SHADOW, Team Shydog, Rupert2, Torry, ~Mystery Dog~, Team Tigger International, Cache Commando, bbSurveyors and Dover Duo. If you are interested in spreading the Quest to your neck of the woods AND WOULD LIKE TO JOIN US, email SixDogTeam.

*Grand Exalted Order of the Indiana Spirit Quest

** THIS IS A GENUINE INDIANA SPIRIT QUEST CACHE** xxxxx

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
-------------------------
N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)