GeoCacheEngineer

Having a little trouble equating true histrical sites with a system of listing every McDonalds restraunts as well as every public pay phone in existance, just to name a few.

The Icon solution is nice but it does not provide an answer to being able to have history caches at sites we are prohibited from placing actual physical caches at. As I understand it we cannot put a history cache or any type of cache at a National Historic park. Here in Georgia the same thing is true for the state parks historical or otherwise. In my mind it is about the adventure not about the boxes with cheap toys in them. Just think of how great it would be to demonstrate to these bureaucrats that decided it was a good idea to kick us out of there parks and sites that cachers are responsible and for the most part honorable folks and deserve to play their sport in their parks and sites. Just my $0.02 worth

This is a letter I sent to saveourhistory.com. I thought I could post it here as a starter on the topic of creating a new "History Cache" category. History is not just fact kept in books, it is places where things happened. With that said there is a new activity called GeoCaching where people from all over the world use their GPS receivers and go to defined coordinates to find treasure. Currently GeoCaching.com is the source for user to get the coordinates to locate these treasures. My idea is for a teaming up of the History Channel and GeoCaching.com to create a history cache for users like myself to hunt and find. I have a couple of examples of such a type of history cache that I found to be very educational and enjoyable. It is the grave of a black slave known as "Blind Tom". He is purported to have been laid to rest north east of Columbus, Georgia. A traditional cache is located in the area to honor him and it requires visitors to sign a log, hidden in a container, to gain credit for the visit. Another example is some twenty miles north in West Point, Georgia where a virtual cache exist to educate visitors about the last general of the Civil War to loose his life as a result of combat. There are countless opportunities for such historical locations that could be made into history caches for user like myself to find and learn about its history. Locations could extend from here in my own back yard to across this country as well as across this entire planet. There is currently an example of how such a system could work. GeoCaching.com has teamed up with GeoSociety.org and created what is known as an EarthCaches. This is an educational cache where visitors learn about the earth's rare and unique geology at different places all around the world. My idea is for there to be a similar arrangement made between the History Channel and GeoCaching.com where the History Channel could dub a historical place as a history cache site and GeoCaching users can get appropriate credit for the find. http://www.geosociety.org/earthcache/