The Kentucky Confederate Cemetery is in Peewee Valley, Ky. It is the final resting place for 313 Confederate soldiers, who lived out their final days in the Peewee Valley Confederate Home. It is also the home of the Confederate Memorial, which is listed on the National Register of Historical Places. There is a house, just larger that a bird house, that contains a log of the people buried here, giving their grave location and the unit that they served with.
I learned about this from my Geocaching hobby, which is a higher tech hide-and seek. The gentleman in the picture is Ben of the Geocaching team Ben & Grace. Ben passed away recently after he and his wife Grace found their 1,000th cache.
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Is that like the GPS seek and find, and then after finding, you have to leave some small token item for the next person(s) to find?
It is the GPS seek and find. However only some caches have "token exchange boxes". More common is to just have a log to sign. There are also multi-caches like my "Discover Downtown LaGrange. Go to www.geocaching.com and click "Hide & Seek a Cache". Near the bottom, you will see "by waypoint. Put in GC16B55 and it will bring you to the cache page. This one has been found by 32 people (or groups) since I placed in on October 27, 2007
I love geocaching! So much fun. I haven't done it in YEARS!
I love old cemeteries. The gravestones are often so beautiful, leaving me with more questions that answers.
Old cemeteries provide interesting information about those who passed on. Thanks for posting about this one.
Cemeteries are filled with history and this one being restricted to Confederate soldiers who died long after the Civil War, has an additional historica bent.
Geocaching sounds like fun!
Terrie
I love to explore old cemeteries and imagine the stories that go along with the names.
I like visiting cemeteries. I've never tried geocaching!
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