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Indiana Spirit Quest #337: The Little Stone Coffin Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 10/11/2005
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 over a year and a half, the quest has grown to over three hundred sixty caches hidden in thirty-six Indiana counties, and two Ohio counties, and the hiders have grown to nineteen cacher teams, most of which of which are comprised of Dogs and their Humans. Over 725 cacher teams have logged over 8,600 finds. One cache machine found 102 ISQ caches in a single day (daylight hours only).


(Photos by LEAD DOG)

INDIANA SPIRIT QUEST #337

”Hillcrest"

Welcome to Hillcrest Cemetery, a fairly big place out in the Country south of Pierceton in Washington Township, Kosciusko County, Indiana.


The Little Stone Coffin in the Little Iron Fence

Bricklayers' Nightmare


Neighbor's Respectful and Tastefully done Flower Garden next to Main Gate

There are a number of Civil War veterans buried here that were members of the 74th Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment.

UNION INDIANA VOLUNTEERS

74th Regiment, Indiana Infantry

Organized at Fort Wayne, Ind., and mustered in August 21, 1862 to June, 1865.

Battle of Perryville, Ky; Battle of Chickamauga; battles about Dallas, New Hope Church; Assault on Kennesaw; Peach Tree Creek ; Siege of Atlanta; March to the Sea; Averysboro; Surrender of Johnston and his army. March to Washington, D. C., via Richmond, Va.; Grand Review. Mustered out at Washington, D. C.

Regiment lost during service 5 Officers and 86 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 2 Officers and 181 Enlisted men by disease. Total 274

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

The cache container is a small plastic thing of some sort.No, now it's a match safe. BYOP. You must sign the log to claim a smilie.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. xxxxxx

None genuine without this official SixDogTeam seal. Digital photographs taken by Lead Dog, (C) 2005 by RikSu Outfitters with Kodak equipment, unless otherwise noted.

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"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, DoverDuo, -{LoS}-Xile, Prairiepartners, WilliamsFamGC, Team Itchy & Scratchy, Bean Blossom Gang, Wishbone86, krisNjoe and bikinibottomfeeders. 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** 40 47.8999 85 50.4816

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

rregtvo

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)