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I have some categories that I have thought of, but can't manage, so I thought that I would throw them out here.  I didn't know if I should have started a thread for each one, or just make a thread for all of them like this. 

If others want to post category suggestions here, they can!  If anyone wants to discuss one of them, just make sure that you mention which one you are discussing in your post.

1. Older cemeteries.  There is a category for abandoned cemeteries.  But I think there should be one for cemeteries that have graves in them 100 years old or older (or something along those lines).  Possibly cemeteries that are not accepting new graves?  I'm not sure, because some towns only have one cemetery which may have very old graves.  Last weekend we went to 3 cemeteries with caches that were closed to new graves but were maintained with signs, and most of the gravestones were from the 1800's which isn't as common around here.

2. Welcoms signs with mottos/nicknames.  Most towns have a nice big sign with their town motto.  Some examples: "Wenatchee, Apple Capitol of the World", "Entiat, Gateway to Recreation", "Coulee City, Friendliest Town in the West", etc.  Have a picture of the sign.

3. Grange Halls.  This is a fading trend, sadly.  Waymark the granges, even if they are used for something else now. 

4. Schoolhouses.  There used to be a locationless for one room schoolhouses.  That may be a bit limiting, making it only one rooms, I don't know?  But you get the point.

 

Does anyone want to take any of these? 

2. Welcome signs with mottos

The more I think about this one the more I like it.  How many of us have stopped on a family vacation and piled the group out of the car and snapped a photo by the "Welcome To..." sign.  I don't want to take on any more categories myself; but I would love to see someone run with this category idea.  I would probably vote favorably.

I'm actually getting the really scary urge to take it myself. 

You could use this Category

BORDER CROSSINGS


It doesn't say that it is between countries (or much of anything for that matter), so it could be town borders.

But a Welcome To would be better. There is one for "Z Towns" already though.


BQ

Yeah, people could use those, but this is more specific.  This wouldn't even include plain old "welcome to" signs either.  It would have to have the nickname/motto of the city on it.

This is the one that we found a couple weekends ago:

I should probably just look, but what's a Z-Town?

Towns starting with the letter "Z".

I have an interest in both the town welcome signs idea and the one-room schoolhouse idea.

For town welcome signs, care must be taken in the category definition to block out simple sheet metal "Welcome to ________" signs, so that we focus on more interesting examples with catchy slogans.  The photo above is a good example.  Giant fish that leap from the water and tower over sailboats.  Bucking broncos on tiny islands.  Who woulda thunk it?

For one-room schoolhouses, this is near and dear to my heart.  There are some great examples near my home that I drive past quite often, and my daughter's godparents live in a converted schoolhouse.  But I never logged the corresponding locationless cache, because by that point I had formed a negative opinion about "taking" a location that was then closed off to anyone else wishing to log a find.

I would definitely be an officer in either or both of these.  I would also be willing to add one or both to the four categories where I am already group leader.  But I worry that this would doom the category when it goes to peer review.

I don't think that "old cemeteries" is a well-defined category.  I like the specialty cemetery categories that already exist.  There are so many cemeteries that I probably wouldn't bother waymarking them just because they are "old."  They are too common.  And, the definition of "old" is region-specific.  Where I live, graves from the early 1800's would be "old."  In Massachusetts, there was nearly 200 years of history before that.  And in Europe, 300 year-old things are commonplace.

1. Older cemeteries- 100 years old is "Young". Most of  the New World was settled by 1900. Maybe 200 or 300 would be better.

2. Welcome Signs - I like this one. I would expect to see many responses. Towns like to be unique.

Would something like "Troy Grove - Birth place of Buffalo Bill" be allowed? or "Smith Crossing - Home of 1975 Class 3a High School State Wrestling Champion, John Doe"? There's many of this type out there.

3.Grange Halls - ? Just looked it up on Wiki... Didn't know about it. Sounds interesting. Have to learn more - Will study.

4. Schoolhouses - There is a category for converted schoolhouses and most, but not all, one-room schools would fit there. I do like the idea of JUST one-room schoolhouses. There are many out there. Many are converted to other uses. Some are boarded up. Some are just storage buildings. Some are unique. Many are almost look-alikes.

 

If no one else has already decided to do it, I want to take the town welcome signs.  I've talked myself into it.

I'm just not good with names, and my mind's pretty fried today.  Any suggestions for a group name and a category name?  Thanks. 

If I get some replies, I'll create a group a bit later today and post it here, if anyone wants to become an officer or a member.  Again, please specify to me which you would like to be.

Thanks.

I'll suggest "Local Slogan Welcome Signs" as a category name.  We can't limit it to "Town" because there are boroughs, villages, cities, etc.  And we can't say just "welcome signs" because of the need to convey the essence of the category:  something more than simply "Now Entering Anytown."

"Name that town" could serve as a group name.  If you create the group after 4:30 pm Pacific time, I'll have access to the waymarking.com site and I'd be honored to be Call Number 2.  Gee, it's odd that we seem to like the same categories.  Or not.

In any case, time to take this one out of this "incubator thread" and give the new category its own recruiting and vote-gathering thread.  I'm still not sure whether this new forum or the old forum is the right place for that.  Or whether OpinioNate the ruthlessly efficient moderator would suspend your posting rights if you created duplicate threads in both forums.

Actually, I think you could use "Town" in the name, as long as you then explain that boroughs, villages, cities, etc are also acceptable. Will larger areas be acceptable such as County or  State?

I'll offer myself as Officer 3

there are still lots of LCs yet to have a waymarking category....

 

one was for towns that had a claim to fame (i posted the location of the worlds largest easter egg hunt), seems similar to above ideas....

 

any one know where that thread with a link that had all LCs (ever) described?

Mazed out here, but several of these are cats I've often thought of and hope someone will be able to do them. 

Welcome/Motto signs is an excellent idea!  I have some of these waymarked, and everytime I see one, I think what a great waymark it would be.

Granges are interesting in many respects.  Some are still active, others converted to other uses, and some preserved historically.  It is a worthy category.

Cemeteries -- problematic.  I want to find some way to waymark these, and there are a number of grave site and cemetery categories, but there are still really interesting ones that just don't fit.  I've thought a lot about how to do this, but am still against a brick wall.  Maybe a universal cemetery category with variables? ? ?

Keep the ideas coming!

Hey Chapterhouse... here's a useful link to the Locationless Caches

Locationless Cache Checklist

They aren't described, but you can click the titles.

BQ

the blue quasar:

Hey Chapterhouse... here's a useful link to the Locationless Caches

Locationless Cache Checklist

They aren't described, but you can click the titles.

BQ

cool.....ill try to bump this if it is nearing archival (or whatever happens to the threads that disappear)

 

everyone else: now pick one to create and manage....

There are a few categories in the location less here that are interesting.  Perhaps there are a few that would make good subs of existing categories as well....

KE

silverquill:

Mazed out

 

Mazes would be a good category.

would have to exclude Fun parlour mirror mazes though.

 

"Mazes" is a category. At least outdoor ones.

Since "Labyrinths" was added to "Mazes", perhaps indoor ones could be as well.

BQ

Why don't you make it for both cemetaries. Make it so that you can waymark older and newer ones. I would like to see one for older cemetaries that are not accepting any more burials. I like to visit the older ones.

It sounds like to me that the consensus is that the best way to do another cemetary category would be to do a big general one with specific variables.  Hey, it's no worse than a McDonald's category.    I don't see a problem with marking all the cemetaries.  I could really get into that category.

yes, i think there is a need for a 'master' cemetery category (whats that woman in SC gonna think about that?).....it could be that 'abandoned' becomes a variable within it....(is there any mention of subcategories on the site anymore?)

abandoned is quite arbitrary--so is cutting the grass only several times a year too many to qualify? and in the case of a national park i know of, you can be buried in the abandoned cemetery if you can prove that several generations of your lineage resides there....

 

this is a category i would forsee participating fully in as an officer, a seeker, and a logger.....

I see this could be a very fun catagory to do.

ambrosia:

It sounds like to me that the consensus is that the best way to do another cemetary category would be to do a big general one with specific variables.  Hey, it's no worse than a McDonald's category.    I don't see a problem with marking all the cemetaries.  I could really get into that category.

 

I'm sure you could get into it, but I hope you can get back out!