South End Cemetery Traditional Cache
FireflyAfrica: This was my very first cache placed. Sadly time to put it to bed
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A quick cemetery cache which will hopefully trigger somebody's interest to stay a bit longer and explore.
Some people may think it's a bit weird, but I have a keen interest in old and historic cemeteries. There is always something interesting to discover being it a grave stone, statue, fence, plants or just the person laid to rest there. In my "haunts" through some of the city's historic cemeteries I have discovered the graves of some of Port Elizabeth's prominent early inhabitants dating back as far as the early 1800's.
In the mid 1800's there was a great demand from the different churches in Port Elizabeth for their own cemeteries. The solution was the layout of two large multi-denominational and multi-ethnic cemeteries at North End in 1863 and South End in 1882. In the South End Cemetery a simple fourfold division between Church of England, Nonconformist, Roman Catholic, and Moslem was adopted. This spatial pattern was retained in subsequent cemetery planning until the 1990s.
The cemetery isn't an active (as in they don't bury people here anymore) cemetery anymore. It is sad though to see the amount of vandalism in the cemetery so by placing the cache there I'm also hoping to draw more people's attention to it.
1. Please approach the cache with respect to the location it is placed in.
2. The cache is NOT placed on, in, under or behind any of the grave stones.
3. The cache is magnetic
4. BYOP
5. Please replace cache exactly as found.
FTF goes to Wikkelgat just beating Mixs and Chris'nDenise to the cache
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