Sunday, August 30, 2015
We have a gorgeous day again today, and before the temps rise this week, we thought we'd go to Rhode Island and do a hike at the Sprague Homestead.  We are finding many homesteaders wanted their land preserved, so they put it in the Glocester Land Management and they made a preserve out of it.  They didn't want homes and businesses being built on their land, but instead have hiking trails in there.  We hiked 5.4 miles today and found 9 caches within the homestead.  These people in RI really put us to the test.  They hid some really difficult caches there.  We found a lot of the stone walls around the property, and they used them as fences to pasture their cattle. They claim to have over 5 miles of stone walls on the property, and 240,000 miles in all of New England.  We also found the remnants of the homes they built, with the stone foundations.  We didn't see any sign of a fireplace, which we thought was odd.  They had a cemetery for the Sprague Family in one corner of the property, and it was interesting to read the dates on the tombstones.  We got our Rhode Island souvenir for caching in that state and the first one we got there put us at 2400 caches that we have found.  I think we're addicted!  It does take us to some very interesting places, and we weren't let down today.

                                     This was the largest tombstone in the Sprague Cemetery. 

This is what is left of the foundation of one of the buildings on the Sprague Homestead.  We assumed it was the house.

This is an example of the stone fences that we saw on the property, and we see a lot of it throughout New England.  This is pretty crude, where a lot of them are precisely positioned and are quite attractive.