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Three Graveyards, Geocaching and a LetterBox USA A few evenings ago I met a gentleman via plenty of fish. We agreed to meet at the Wild Bean for Java and headed for the Irish Pub for a romantic dinner. It was a vast improvement over the date I had the day before. Geocaching is an online sport where caches are hiddened and located with a GPS. I have two hidden caches within walking distance in downtown Lewisburg so I introduced the gentleman to the joys of Geocaching. The first cache is called Soiled Dove. The Soiled Doves were civil war era prostitutes who followed the camps. They also washed and cooked for the soldiers. Sometimes they would put on the uniforms and go into battle with the men. One such woman met her demise in the battle of Lewisburg. She and several Union Soldiers were buried in the Old Stone Church Graveyard and later relocated to Arlington Cemetary. The Second Cache was a multi-stage Cache which ends up in the Greenbrier State Forest. This Cache is named the Greenbrier Martr We only did the first two stages. The second stage is in the Old Stone Graveyard near the grave of the Greenbrier Martyr. David Creigh was hanged by the Union Army for shooting an Union Soldier who broke into his home and was terrorizing his . He became known as the Greenbrier Martyr. There is the old Slave Graveyard across the Street from the Old Stone Cememtary. I told the gentleman the stories about some of the folks residing in that graveyard. Afterwards, we walked over to the Confederate Soldiers Grave Site. There are approximately 90 unknown fallen confederate soldiers from the Battle of Lewisburg in a common grave. I was telling him that this would be a great place to hide a cache. We were searching for a place to hide a cache and found THE BATTLE OF LEWISBURG Letterbox. Apparently Letterboxing is a Sister Sport to Geocaching. No GPS is needed. The Letterboxes has individualized rubber stamps and the Seeks have rubbers stamps too. They are craved out of erasers. Dang! If I didn't scared this guy off with so much walking and so many graveyards, I might have him help me crave rubberstamps for a second date.  Abracadabra  |
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8/16/2007 4:34 pm |
I have heard about both did not know of the need for GPS technology though. There are several Letterbox sites in my town but yours are very interesting I would not mind pursuing such an interest locally so would love any references you might be able to send to me. My LTR who passed and I had thought of doing the letterbox one but I do not know what I did with the info. Is it something I can research online? Sounds like you had an interesting first meeting. So when s the next date and what site did you find this guy on?
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You can check out Letterbox USA or Geocaching to find out information about either sport. Geocaching requires a GPS but Letterboxing does not. Abracadabra
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9/3/2007 6:36 pm |
I don't know anything about geocatching...but I once read a profile of a man that mentioned he like it. Sounds, rather interesting....as are you!!
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