Robinson Farm Cemetery Traditional Cache
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Cache is located in the back of the Robinson Farm Cemetery on Robinson Lane in the Town of Wappingers. Container is a small lock and lock that is big enough to hold a log book, a pen, and a few small trade items.
This cache, along with many other of its type that I am planning, will mainly focus on older, nearly forgotten burial plots of Dutchess County. The goal of these caches is not necessarily the length of the walk nor the difficulty of the find, but rather a simple reverence for those who came before us to shape our area.
Given this cache's venue and the need to show proper respect for it, there will be NO DIGGING REQUIRED to locate the final cache container. It is NOT located in the rock wall and is a safe distance away from any gravestone. Please DO NOT engage in any behavior that might even POSSIBLY be construed by the locals as improper, disrespectful, or sacrilegious toward the grave sites or the general area. Please leave everything (the cache as well) EXACTLY as you found it when you arrived.
Parking for this cache can be tricky and the walk to the cemetery along the road can be dangerous (watch yourselves and your children with care!) There is a new road near the cemetery called, Viola Ct. That is where I parked and I just walked about a hundred yards along Robinson Lane to the cemetery. There also seems to be a small pull off on Robinson Lane near the bridge. I would not suggest parking on Robinson Lane itself, directly in front of the cemetery. Seems to tight for a car to fit in and there is a lot of traffic on that road.
This cache could be a quick park and grab, but it was not intended to be done in this manner. Please stay a few moments to walk around and read some of the stones. This cemetery was visited on October 21,1912, by J. W. Poucher, M. D., and Miss Helen W. Reynolds. The two copied the transcriptions on every stone for their book, "Old Gravestones of Dutchess County, New York", which was then written in 1924. Their exact transcriptions are in a ziploc bag inside the cache for your viewing purposes. Please do not remove the listings from the container.
The cemetery used to be on the farm of D. Remsen Robinson and there are 44 stones in total. An excerpt from Poucher's book gives the following historical information: "This is one of the oldest burial places in the county of which traces now remain. It contains unmarked graves and graves marked by rough field stones without inscriptions. Dutch families from Long Island settled on Fishkill Plains in the seventeen-forties and fifties. The earliest date among these stones is 1752. The names on the stones, taken in connection with the deeds for land in the immediate vicinity indicate that this was a local neighborhood burial ground.
CACHE WAS APPROVED BY THE TOWN BOARD OF THE TOWN OF WAPPINGERS
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