Goshen looks to buy land for cemetery, and to protect mysterious tunnel

the Gazette ^ | Thursday, August 26, 2010 | Rebecca Everett

[SunkenCiv]

Mysterious tunnel

The tunnel that exists on the 2-acre lot is a well-like shaft 3.5 feet in diameter that descends 14 feet straight down, and then extends in two tunnels that are tall enough to stand upright in. One of those tunnels extends 16.5 feet north before it ends in a cave-in, while the other tunnel runs south for 62 feet before it also caved in. The walls, ceiling and floor of the tunnels are all lined with large stones, some as big as 5 feet in length.

Excavations were conducted in 1972 and 1980 to determine the age and purpose of the tunnel, but were not very successful. In 1980, the late James Whittall, then the director of archaeology for the Danielson, Conn.-based Early Sites Research Society that excavated the tunnel, said that based on the evidence from stones, it may have been created as early as 500 to 900 B.C.

Margaret Waggoner said that the Goshen Historical Commission hopes that the purchase passes so that the land, including the tunnel, will not be used as a building lot. "We sure don't need a building there, you could imagine what the construction could do to the tunnel," she said.

The tunnel's entrance, which is now hidden by a boulder to discourage vandals, will probably remain sealed, Waggoner said, because it has already been extensively excavated in the past without yielding many clues about its original purpose.

Brian Noess contacted the town about purchasing the land last fall.

[SunkenCiv]

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[stumptalker]

Where is Goshen?

[afraidfortherepublic]

United States
Cities and towns
Goshen, Alabama
Goshen, Arkansas
Goshen, California
Goshen, Connecticut
Goshen, Georgia
Goshen, Idaho
Goshen, Illinois
Goshen, Indiana
Goshen College, a Mennonite college
Goshen, Kentucky
Goshen, Maryland
Goshen, Massachusetts
Goshen, Missouri
Goshen, New Hampshire
Goshen, New Jersey
Goshen (town), New York
Goshen (village), New York
Goshen, Ohio in Clermont County
Goshen, Tuscarawas County, Ohio
Goshen, Oregon
Goshen, Pennsylvania
Goshen, South Carolina
Goshen, Tennessee
Goshen, Texas
Goshen, Utah
Goshen Reservoir
Goshen, Vermont
Goshen, Virginia
Goshen Scout Reservation, a Boy Scout reservation
Goshen, Washington
Goshen, West Virginia

[Wally_Kalbacken]

40 miles east of Minsk, 50 Miles west of Pinsk.

[Brugmansian]

Northwest Connecticut. Mohicans were the dominate tribe there.

[afraidfortherepublic]

I’m betting on CT bc the original article was from the Hampshire Gazette.

[bert]

Go down 11W from Churchill to the red light at the underpass and turn left. That is Goshen Valley road.

[stumptalker]

LOL! And they could find the same fruit cellar complex in any of them too. ;-)

[stumptalker]

Do they have any other tourist attractions like the worlds largest mud ball, or rubber band? ;-)

[DeFault User]

Land o' Goshen!

I have no idea what this old exclamation means. Goshen (the place) is in the story of Joseph.

[bert]

Down the Goshen Valley road a piece is the turn off to Laurel Park where they filmed the Mell Gibson movie the River.

[SunkenCiv]

It refers to Lando Calrissian’s real dad.

[calex59]

It’s the word of with the f being silent, so you pronounce it like an a, example: Land a Goshen. A very common thing at one time for various expressions and usually from some country such as England that had heavy accents such as the cockney accent.

[DeFault User]

That’s another kettle of Giju.

[calex59]

PS, I forgot: The expression is like a swear word only with out bad words. I used to hear my old Arkie relatives use it. Such as “Land o’ Goshen the cat sh** on the rug again!” or something similar:) Although why they didn’t use something stronger if they were going to throw the sh** word in there anyway, I don’t know.

[A. Morgan]

Goshen, Mass.

http://rock-piles.com/souterrain/

read the whole article.

[Daffynition]

A terrific hot air balloon event at the fair!

[A. Morgan]

http://www.neara.org/photos.htm#MA

[TheOldLady]

That’s very annoying, isn’t it. The state should always be mentioned somewhere, and not obliquely as it is here. Also, as in the case of Ohio [blush], the county.

[aside] There’s an news reader on one of the radio stations who cannot, for the life of her, pronounce “Tuscarawas.”