“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 two years, the quest has grown
to over four hundred fifty caches hidden in Indiana, as well as
Ohio and Michigan, and the hiders have grown to over twenty-five
cacher teams, most of which of which are comprised of Dogs and
their Humans. Over 950 cacher teams have
logged over 10,700 finds. One of many cache machines found 102 ISQ
caches in a single day (daylight hours only).
Photos by Lord Elwood
INDIANA SPIRIT QUEST
#411
"BINGO!"
Welcome to St. Paul
Lutheran Cemetery (also known as Coldwater Lutheran Cemetery and
Ludwig Cemetery) located in Allen County, Washington Township, Fort
Wayne, Indiana. Many local cachers may recognize this location as
the former home to
BINGO! by
Lord Padishar , which is where the name for this ISQ comes
from. BINGO! lived a good life with many hits from local cachers
and cachers traveling down Interstate 69. It was a sad day when it
came up missing. With permission from Lord Padishar, I decided to
keep the location and the spirit of BINGO! alive in the form of an
Indiana Spirit Quest cache.
Photos by Lord Elwood
The earliest confirmed burial here occurred
in 1844. Not much is known about this little cemetery other than it
was part of the St. Paul Lutheran Church, which is no longer in
existence.
Photos by Lord Elwood
At some point in 1920, the school and the
surrounding land was sold to the state to make way for the
Interstate 69 and highway 27 interchange. That same interchange is
why there is a lot of noise here. Luckily the historical society
stepped in to preserve this cemetery in its very unlikely
place.
Photos by Lord Elwood
It's been a mystery as to why BINGO!
disappeared. However, when I scouted this cemetery, I quickly
learned why. There have been some major clean up and restoration
projects occurring here. The trees and the bushes surrounding the
cemetery used to be overgrown and out of control. Now everything is
trimmed back and looking good. Well, this process also exposed the
location of the BINGO! cache. My guess is that the grounds crew
threw it away figuring it was just a piece of trash.
Photos by Lord Elwood
FIND LOGS ON THIS CACHE THAT INDICATE NIGHT CACHING
WILL BE DELETED WITHOUT
NOTICE!
The cache container WAS an
Altoids Chewing Gum container, but is now a camo'd soda bottle
preform. Please bring your own pencil as I couldn't fit one in the
container. The cache is not located near a grave... If you find
a fallen US flag, please stick it back in the ground. You must sign
the cache log to claim a find. As always, please be respectful, and
cache in, trash out.
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