Cemetery Series: Shiloh Traditional Cache
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You are looking for pill bottle with log and SWAG. BYOP. After further consideration, I have downgraded the diffuclty to a 2. Still should be a fun find.
One in a series of local cemetery caches.
Welcome to Plant City, and my hometown. We are a city of neighbors and friends.
Being a local mortician I spend a fair amount of time in these cemeteries. I am always curious as I look at the headstones about the stories that could be told by the departed. Most cemeteries are older than the cities that rise up around them.
This cache is on the perimeter of the cemetery. It is important for cachers to respect the location and only travel the perimeter to the GZ. Each cache can be found without entering the cemetery. Please respect the departed, else my permission may go away. Thank you and happy hunting.
The city cemeteries all close at 7:00PM, so please no night caching in these areas.
THE SHILOH CACHE
This cache is actually inside the main entrance, but is far from the actual graves. I have permission to place it, as with all the others.
SHILOH CEMETERY
This particular cemetery is in the old Shiloh Community. What use to be the center of activity for this part of Hillsborough County in the mid 1800’s, is now just a few businesses and homes. The cemetery actually sits behind a few remaining homes.
When Henry B. Plant (the city’s namesake) sent the railroad from Tampa eastward many years ago, it passed 4 miles south of Shiloh. Eventually all commerce migrated to the tracks, and so did the people, leaving Shiloh all but desolate.
What some may not know is that you cannot move a cemetery, so it was left idle for years. A few years ago the city of Plant City decided to resurvey the land and begin assigning grave locations again. Thus Shiloh Cemetery was “reborn”.
A monument erected recently states that the Shiloh Baptist Church was also on this same site and moved to town in 1885 (later becoming the First Baptist Church). That means this cemetery was originally a church cemetery.
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