1000th Geocaches

Hubby reached geocache number 1000 while in AZ. I did not post at that time because he did not have amazing photos to go with his milestone. (I wasn't along that day.)

I reached #1000 on our way home. We did not have a sign ready nor did we take photos to document my find, BUT I took photos of the amazing location of my #1000 in Concordia (in Cloud County) KS.

Whole World Mural, the longest sculpted brick mural in the US 

The owner of the cache happened to be working at the museum. 

She shared how the wall came to be.

The mural is 140' long and 15' to 20' high.

Cloud Ceramics donated the 6400 bricks to complete the project.

Work began in February 2007 and the last brick was carved on

April 18, 2008.

Two women, Artist Catharine Magel of St. Louis and Mara Smith 

a brick sculptor, carved the green bricks made and donated by

Cloud Ceramics of Concordia.

The carving was done when the bricks were in a 'green state', 

meaning they had been formed but not fired.

The brick masons began placing the fired bricks on April 14, 2009

and the last brick was placed on June 5, 2009.

Each brick was numbered to identify its 

placement on the wall.

Magel calls the mural "Cloud Anthologies."

Amazing detail.

The mural documents the history of Cloud County.

Inside the museum

Four beautiful vehicles

In fact the woman was enthusiastic and proud of not only the beautiful mural,

 but of several other historic features in the little community. 

We learned it is home of the: 

National Orphan Train Museum 

From 1854-1929 over 250,000 orphaned or abandoned children

from NY were taken on trains to new homes all over the US.

POW Camp Concordia

During WWII, POW Camp Concordia housed over 4,000

German prisoners. The first prisoners arrived on July 3, 1943

and the camp closed on November 8, 1945.

The Floating Rock 

on the lawn of the Courthouse

Brown Grand Theatre

a restored 1907 French Renaissance, 650 seat theatre

 Nazareth Convent

Home to the Sisters of St. Joseph since 1903

Cloud County Museum

housing a 1928 Lincoln Page bi-plane and a 

letter written by Martha Washington

We did not have time to look for other caches in the area, but we both agreed, the museum volunteer and cache owner, sold us on the community. There is much to see and more caches to find. We will return to Concordia KS and next time, spend more time and money.