Five (but Not Alive) Traditional Cache

This cache has been archived.

Knagur Green: Due to no response from the CO after the request to maintain or replace the cache, I am archiving it to, stop it showing on the listings and/or to create place for the geocaching community.

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Knagur Green
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Hidden : 9/19/2011
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

A magnetic cache at a very historic landmark. Stealth required as there might be many muggles around. Bring pen or pencil.

What do five ghosts do around a camp fire? They tell Chuck Norris stories! Here lies five of them who were caught out...

Johan Georg Meyer, married to Hester, came to the area where Alberton is today, in 1840 on the Great Trek. He measured out three farms for himself. By 1845 they decided to stay on the farm called Elandsfontein and built a homestead on the corner of today’s Hendrik Potgieter and Tenth Avenue in Alberton North, near the Natalspruit.

Today, their family cemetery is a traffic circle in Alberton North, where this cache is hidden. Apparently, this is the only traffic circle cemetery in the Southern Hemisphere!

After the death of Voortrekker Meyer in 1855, his widow Hester married Abraham Viljoen. Their two-year old daughter, Jacomina Hendrina Viljoen, died in November 1862 (see "Veljoen" inscription at the gravesight) and was buried here. Abraham Viljoen died in 1894 and was also buried here as well as some other Meyer and Viljoen relatives. Also a child Steenkamp, of which an inscription can also be seen. At least seven people were buried here, but only five tombstones are visible.

The cemetery was fenced off in 1949 by the Alberton Town Council and cement slabs were laid. A motor vehicle accident most probably caused the damage to the fence which can be seen today.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Pbyyvfvba Pbhefr

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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