George's Cache Traditional Cache
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Cache is located at the given coordinates and is a magnetic container roughly the size of a tootsie roll.
There is a tablet directly in front of the main entrance to the Big-E on the side of RT-147/Memorial Ave. It reads "This tablet marks the George Washington Memorial Highway, of West Springfield 1732 – 1932." It is the route by which Washington traveled through Western MA in June, 1775 while on his way to serve as Commander of the Continental Army in Cambridge. Nearly identical markers were erected in each town Washington stopped at during his journey. Only two weeks earlier on June 15th, Washington was appointed by the Continental Congress in Philadelphia “to command all the continental forces, raised or to be raised, for the defense of American liberty.”
West Springfield was incorporated near the beginning of the American Revolution in 1774. Two years after its incorporation, Henry Knox and his train of artillery passed through the town as noted by the Knox Trail marker on the common.
Three years after, General Reidesel and his Hessian soldiers, part of Burgoyne’s army, encamped on the village common on their way to imprisonment in Boston. The event is also indicated by a marker on the common.
One house still stands near the common that was a witness to these events. On the north side of the common, on Park Street, is the Josiah Day House, built in 1754. As the marker indicates, it is the only known solid brick salt box house of its period in the United States.
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