Our youth group created an “exhibit-in-a-box” for some historic properties around the state of Connecticut. We spent our summer caching, and visited and researched some house museums. We chose items for our caches that represent events or people related to the house as a way to help with the interpretation of our history. Feel free to trade the cache items, especially if your item relates to our history. You can also accept the challenge to find them all. We hope you enjoy our caches and stories!
“The cache is not located anywhere that would be unsafe for you, the flowers, or the historic structures, so please be respectful while you hunt.”
ALL HALE NATHAN:
State hero Nathan Hale was a soldier of the continental army during the Revolutionary War. He volunteered for an intelligence gathering mission in New York where he failed and was caught by the British and hanged.
Nathan Hale is known as the state hero because after he was captured he recited the famous words from an old time play before he was hanged, "I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country." Nathan Hale went to Yale at what we would consider a shocking young age of fourteen and later graduating at eighteen.
Nathan Hale had seven siblings, four boys and three girls. The house known as the Nathan Hale Homestead isn’t actually the birth home of Nathan. The house he was originally born in was a Georgian style home; but was located on the same site. The house is surrounded by 400 acres of farmland and forest, and the geocache will be located behind the home.
Nickelodeon’s Harriet the Spy - This represents how Nathan was a spy in the Revolutionary War.
Rooster - The significance of the rooster connects to Nathan having a big farm that kept his family wealthy.
Child in a cap and gown statue - The statue directly ties into Nathan attending college at just fourteen years old.