A very nice by product of geocaching is that you will discover new things and that sometimes you see things you've looked at all the time in a different light.
Here are three of our favorite discoveries. The codes beside the names can be used to find the caches on geocaching.com. Geocaching.com would cost you
about $30 a year. And for that you get access to a plethora of interesting tools you can use to help you find geocaches.
I think you can look around for free but I'm not sure what options are available
Salt Creek Covered Bridge (GC1T3H1) Latitude: N39 59.95 Longitude: W81 50.41
Terri and I (StoneArch and Tom724) found this one (using an app on my phone) on the way back from visiting Terri's daughter in Ohio.
It's a bit off the main highway but getting there was a beautiful drive through gently rolling hills. When we got there it took a while to find the cache.
We explored the area, we looked all over, enjoying the place.
Location: Off Arch Hill Road (CR 82) north of Rt 40 by 2.2 miles. Muskingum Co OH.
Unfortunately, this cache is no longer there. We assume it has been removed by the owner.
Potters Field (GC1KCT4) Latitude: N40 36.053 Longitude: W 077 33.262.41
This cache was a surprise for both of us. Terri has lived here (Lewistown, PA) all her life and did not know this place existed.
It is where indigents were buried. There are no headstones but a young man earning his Eagle Scout badge researched and restored the area.
Here is a list of those buried there, it may bring a tear to your eye. Often the name of the deceased was not known so they just put down what they knew.
If you get a chance, drop by and check it out. Potters field in Lewistown is off of Green Avenue the other side of Blossom Hill. I think the scout
that did it might have been a contestant on Jeopardy. During the contestant chat he said he was an Eagle Scout and that he had updated an old cemetary. Wish I could remember his name.
Kudos to the young man who did this. It made a lasting impression of both of us. Even if you don't geocache, it is an interesting place to visit.
Indian Trail Cache (GCH8TF) Latitude: N40 50.414 Longitude: W077 38.814
Another surprise. This cache celebrates the lives of two pioneers who lost their lives in an Indian fight.
It is always nice to find things about the area you grew up in that are not part of the history books.
This is a part of Penns Valley's History that few people know about. This Cache is near a Memorial for two Brave Soldiers.
On the 25th of July, 1778, General Potter writes from Penn's valley, that the inhabitants of the valley are returned, and were cutting their grain.
Yesterday two men of Captain Finley's company, Colonel Brodhead's regiment, went out from this place in the plains a little below my fields, and met a party of Indians,
five in numbers whom they engaged; one of the soldiers, Thomas Van Doran, was shot dead, the other, Jacob Shedacre, ran about four hundred yards,
and was pursued by one of the Indians; they attacked each other with their knives, and one excellent soldier killed his antagonist.
His fate was hard, for another Indian came up and shot him. He and the Indian lay within a perch of each other; these two soldiers
served with Colonel Morgan in the last campaign. (At Burgoyne's capture.) James Alexander, who in after years farmed the old Fort place,
found a rusted hunting knife near the spot of the encounter. Two stones were put up to mark the spot, still standing on William Henning's place, near the fort.
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