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Indiana Spirit Quest #299: Swan Song Traditional Cache

Hidden : 8/15/2005
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

Edited 4-28-2009


“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 three hundred caches hidden in twenty-seven Indiana counties, and two Ohio counties, and the hiders have grown to eleven cacher teams, most of which of which are comprised of Dogs and their Humans. Over 590 cacher teams have logged over 6,500 finds. One cache machine found 102 ISQ caches in a single day (daylight hours only).


(Photos by Shadow)
INDIANA SPIRIT QUEST #299
”SWAN SONG"
Welcome to Swan Cemetery, Swan Township, Noble County. Can you hear the SHADOW?

This cemetery is mid sized, rural, old, and still quite active. The drive will take you back to, and around the hill, where it had it's beginning. This puts it well back from the roadway. You would find it peaceful and quiet here except for the noise from the nearby main highway. The oldest legible marker I saw was dated 1852.

Most of our wars are represented by veterans buried here, including one from the War of 1812: Joseph Cummins. Along with a well-preserved older stone, he has a newer replacement marker with unit information. –-THE SHADOW

There seems to be a difference of opinion on the spelling of this veteran's last name.

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

The cache container is a 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. GBA

FJI
"Indiana Spirit Quest" is brought to you by the following fellows of GEOISQ*: 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)

pubb pubb genva gb urnira

Decryption Key

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

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)