Becky and I went out to grab a couple of geocaches while the football fans watched Ohio State win a game and then Chuck, Karen and Wally got ready to take in the Kansas game at Lawrence. There's a bit of history around Baldwin City and two of the caches involved information about the slavery issues during civil war times. Gotta do some more research about the Signal Oak, seems like this old oak tree was used to place signals which warned the slave traffic when raiders were approaching. Interesting places these geocaches took us. Big wagon ruts still remain where wagons traveled the Santa Fe Trail. Battle of Black Jack marked a spot where a battle was fought also over civil war issues.
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