Please use all suggested entrance and parking
coordinates. The campus grounds (excluding academic and residence
buildings) are open to the public during daytime hours. Entrance
gate closes at 8:00 pm, but you can exit the rear gate if caught
inside after the front closes. Do not attempt this cache after
hours.
The Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth are a Roman Catholic
apostolic congregation of pontifical right, based in the Convent
Station area of Morris Township, New Jersey. The religious order
was established in 1859 in Newark, New Jersey, following the
example of Elizabeth Ann Seton's community that was founded during
1808 in Emmitsburg, Maryland. The first bishop of the Newark Roman
Catholic diocese was James Roosevelt Bayley, who was a nephew of
Elizabeth Ann Seton, called for the establishment of a new regious
order for women in that diocese based upon her work. Two members of
the New York Sisters of Charity, Mary Xavier Mehegan assisted by
Mary Catherine Nevin, established the new order and chose to remain
with the new congregation.
The Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth founded the Academy of
Saint Elizabeth, the first secondary school for young women in the
state, near Morristown in 1860 during the same year that they
established their motherhouse at that location. Eventually, the
nearby community became known as Convent Station because of a
railway station built during the 1870s with funds provided by the
order, to accommodate their needs. In 1899 the religious order also
established the College of Saint Elizabeth on the same campus,
becoming the first college for women in New Jersey and one of the
first Catholic colleges in the United States to award degrees to
women. The Saint Anne Villa is the retirement facility on the
campus for members of the order.
This multi cache will take you on a tour of the Sisters of
Charity cemetery that is located on the grounds of The College of
St. Elizabeth. In order to find the cache, visit the 6 listed
Sisters and plug the missing numbers from their grave markers into
the following coordinates:
N 40 46.ABC
W 74 26.DEF
Sister A - Sister Helen Marie Morris January 1 _ ,
2002
Sister B - Sister Mary Alice Shanahan February _ ,
1907
Sister C - Sister Mary Edmund McGregor December _ ,
1927
Sister D - Sister Martha Partricia Smith June 1 _ ,
1961
Sister E - Mother Mary Alexandrine Jackson December 5, 19 _
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Sister F - Sister Mary DeSales Newman January 11, 194
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