“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 eighty caches hidden in thirty-eight
Indiana counties, and two Ohio counties, and the hiders have grown
to twenty cacher teams, most of which are comprised of Dogs and
their Humans. Over 750 cacher teams have
logged over 8,900 finds. One cache machine found 102 ISQ caches in
a single day (daylight hours only).
(Photos by Team Itchy & Scratchy)
INDIANA SPIRIT QUEST
#392
"Solomon’s Seal"
Riverside Cemetery is
in Jackson Township, Wayne County just north of Cambridge City,
Indiana. The cemetery was opened in 1869 as a new city cemetery to
replace the Capitol Hill Cemetery that had been plagued with soil
and accessibility issues. The price of the lots were ten cents per
square foot and “any structure or inscription which was
deemed offensive or improper shall be
removed.”
This cache is named for one of the
more notable citizens buried on the grounds of Riverside Cemetery,
General Solomon Meredith. A native of North Carolina, when Solomon
was nineteen he traveled by foot to Indiana. He later served as
Wayne County’s Sheriff and U.S. Marshal for Indiana and was
in the State Legislature. In July 1861 he was appointed Colonel of
the 19th Regular Indiana Volunteer Infantry, known during the war
as the “Iron Brigade.” General Meredith was wounded at
Gainesville and Gettysburg. He also had three sons who served in
the Civil War. General Meredith’s funeral in 1875 was one of
the most imposing events in Cambridge City’s
history.
Also at Riverside, you will find
the graves of the famous Overbeck Sisters, six women whose original
pottery works and paintings are nationally recognized for their
valuable contribution to the Arts and Crafts movement in America.
The family memorial surprisingly bears the name Overpeck. Their
original German name, was a source of constant teasing when the
sisters entered school and the chant ‘over-a-peck,
over-a-peck, not quite a bushel’ caused the sisters to use a
slight variation of the family name for their
business.
Complete your visit of Cambridge
City's pioneer cemeteries by visiting Capitol Hill Cemetery, the
place where Solomon Meredith was originally buried before being
moved to the newer Riverside Cemetery. While there you can hunt for
the ISQ Skidrow to Capitol Hill Cache and learn
more about the area's rich
history.
General Solomon Meredith’s
Monument
McGreevy stone cross with Solomon’s
monument in the background
Archangel keeps watch from
ahigh
HandiCaching.com rating: H12112
The cache is a Decon
container with the usual swag and a log. It is hidden away from
graves. Please return the cache exactly as you found
it.
As always, no ISQ searching after
dusk, and cache in, trash out.
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