Deadbolt The Last Door of Life: Rosehill Cemetary Traditional Cache

This cache has been archived.

ILReviewer: Since I haven't heard from the owner I'm reluctantly archiving this cache. If the owner wishes to reactivate this cache in the next couple of months, please e-mail me at IllinoisGeocacher@yahoo.com and I'll unarchive it as soon as I can.

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Hidden : 3/27/2011
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

Cache is available 24/7. You do not need to be inside the cemetery.

This unique cache is smaller than a film canister and contains only a log. BYOP!

Not totally wheelchair accessible. There isn't a curb to worry about, but it is an underused dirt road and then grass.

If you're here before 4pm you should do http://coord.info/GC1YNB8

Rosehill is west of the Metra tracks that parallel Ravenswood Avenue. The larger and older portion of the cemetery is south of Peterson; to the north is a smaller section that permits only lawn-level markers.

The cemetery was landscaped by William Saunders. Its prominent features include an entrance gate of Joliet limestone, designed by William Boyington; a Romanesque chapel by Joseph Silsbee; and the city's largest public mausoleum, by Sidney Lovell. [AIA 1993]

Rosehill includes, among other attractions, the graves of numerous Chicago mayors (including Long John Wentworth), Civil War generals and soldiers, and Charles Gates Dawes, Vice President of the United States. Household names such as Oscar Mayer, Montgomery Ward, and Richard Sears are interred here as well.

The climactic scene of the movie Next of Kin was filmed at Rosehill, with a gunfight taking place in the area west of the chapel. The funeral scene in Backdraft takes place at the Volunteer Firefighter's Monument at Rosehill, but was actually filmed elsewhere using a replica of this monument. Lulu Fellowes (the girl in the glass box) also appeared in the film U.S. Marshals.

Much of the information here was provided by David Wendell, formerly historian and archivist at Rosehill.

(This info taken from (visit link) written by Matt Hucke)

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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