Where I Lay My Head.. (Johannesburg) Traditional Cache
Where I Lay My Head.. (Johannesburg)
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You’re looking for a green camouflaged coffee can. This cache
was placed during the 2011 Old West Days Event and contains lots of
fabulous SWAG!
Welcome to the Rand District Cemetery, located inside the town of
Johannesburg. There have been so many well-known and interesting
citizens in the Rand area over the years; we can not begin to name
them all.
Many of them have found their final resting place here.
THE CACHE IS LOCATED OUTSIDE OF THE CEMETERY.
We have chosen to dedicate this cache to Francis Marion Myrick
(“Shady Myrick”), one of the areas first gem stone
prospectors. Shady Myrick wandered the Death Valley area from 1900
to 1925, finding and developing many gemstone properties. Perhaps
nowhere else in the world is there more localities and more
minerals and gems to be found in so easily accessible an area. Kern
County is a rockhound’s paradise!
If you choose to enter the cemetery down the dirt road, about
halfway down you will notice the monument covering Shady’s
grave. It is constructed of gem stone material collected from the
vicinity where he discovered the beautiful blue gemstone that now
bears his name, “Myrickite”
Shady Myrick lies next to a few of the more famous Rand residents
including “Burro” Schmidt, Tonie Seager, and (Madame)
Marguerite Roberts.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
ABG VA PRZRGREL!!