The SQ in the cache name above signifies Spirit Quest, a project started in Indiana (GCHRFJ ) to distinguish caches that are set in cemeteries. The idea has since spread throughout the Midwest and elsewhere. Iowa cache owners are joining in as of 2009, with the designation IaSQ prefixing their cache names. As elsewhere, this is a voluntary effort to help designate and highlight these special areas.
Please be respectful of the area, and observe their rules and posted hours
which are typically sunrise to sunset.
Pioneer Cemetery and School- On this site in August 1850 the Burial of Kristine E. Aae began what is known as Pioneer Cemetery. On August 27, 1887, 800 people gathered here to dedicate the rock and concrete monument to the memory of about 40 Norwegian pioneers who had died and been buried here since 1850. In the east half of the cemetery in 1852 a log school was built. It is recorded as the first rural school in Winneshiek County.
Iowa law defines a Pioneer Cemetery as one in which there have been 12 or fewer burials in the past 50 years.
In accordance with Groundspeak rules you must sign cache in a visible manner in order to claim.