MNSQ: Mound Cemetery Multi-Cache
LuLilac: I really liked my final beacon, but critters, human muggles and possibly the laws of physics kept intervening and making containers vanish. Archiving this cache. It shall be reborn. :)
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The first two stages are just inside this historic cemetery, but the final is hidden elsewhere.
If there is anyone near the first stages, please be considerate and come back at a different time.
If you have good eyesight, you can find the info you need from outside the fence.
NOTE: the final has been changed due to excessive wildlife muggling. Hope the squirrels let it live this time. :)
Mound Cemetery was organized by 20 prominent farm and lumber families who knew this area as Brooklyn Township, named after a town in Michigan. The cemetery itself got its name from the burial mounds located on the southern shores of Palmer Lake.
The cemetery's first president was Asa Howe. Some of his descendants are on the Mound Cemetery board today. Asa was also the town's postmaster and ran the general store which was located down the road on the corner of 69th and Osseo Road (Brooklyn Boulevard.)
Across the street from the store, on the northwest corner, stood Brooklyn Baptist Church, which was torn down after WWI. On a quiet Sunday morning, if you listen very closely, you can still hear the ringing of the bell from its tower (because it now hangs in the tower of Brooklyn United Methodist down the street.)
To find the final stage of this cache, you will need the date from the sign on the cemetery fence which is stage 1, and information from Asa and Abby's stone which is stage 2.
Let the Year on the sign = AAAA
Let AAAA + 193 = BBBB
Let the day Asa was born = CC
Let CC x 2 = DD
Let DD - 8 = EE
Final: 45 0D.DEE
93 BB.BB8
NOTE: I can't find my GPS (ironically :P). I used my phone to get the coordinates for the new final. :( See the hint to help identify the new beacon and hiding place if you need to. Please let me know if the coords for the final now are bad. :(
You will (probably) travel past the site of Asa's store and the baptist church on the way to the final, which is the size of a film canister. Bring your own writing instrument for the log. Please use stealth at the final, as there will be Muggles about.
There is a prize of a Virtual Micro Coin for FTF. :)
Special thanks to the amazing Brooklyn51 for their insight, encouragement and accurate coordinates. This is my first hide.
PS if you hear wind chimes while visiting the cemetery, it is probably just my grandmother saying hello. :)
Congratulations to Onthehunt250, First to Find! :)
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Pnpur vf gur fvmr bs n svyz pnavfgre. Vg vf nobhg svir naq n unys srrg bss gur tebhaq naq ba n fubeg fgvpx. Vg vf va n gerr. :)
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