FSC-2015 FSC-2015 Wilmington & Brandywine Cemetery
Cache Details:
Wilmington & Brandywine Cemetery is open to the public during daylight hours. There is a gated entrance at both Delaware Avenue (west bound) and South Park Drive. If the gates are open the grounds are accessible. Absolutely no nighttime caching
Posted coordinates will bring you to a large cannon in the Civil war burial area.
AB equals the last two digits of the first date on either side of the cement cannon mount.
Waypoint 1 (N 39 45.097 W 075 33.127) is notable large tall monument that is guarded by a black dog. Look only at the side of the monument closest to the dog.
CD equals the sum of the digits (eight total) using all numbers (like dates and age).
The final location:
N 39 45.AB4 and W 075 33.3CD.
Check sum A + B + C + D = 15
The final location is in nearby Brandywine Park which is part of the Wilmington State Parks. Use final parking waypoint ( N 39 45.420 W 075 33.114). Make sure you take the trail that is across the road from parking--do not walk along the road. You will have about 0.25 mile walk to the cache.
Description:
Wilmington & Brandywine Cemetery was founded by Sam Wollaston on his ten acre farm in 1843. The cemetery now encompasses twenty five acres. Many notable figures are interred here including Wilmington's first mayor, Richard H. Bayard; Maj. Gen. Thomas A. Smyth, the last Union general to be killed in the Civil War; Dr. James Tilton, a Revolutionary War hero, member of the Continental Congress and surgeon general of the U.S. Army in the War of 1812; Col. Henry S. McComb, a Civil War soldier and Reconstruction railroad tycoon for whom McComb, Mississippi, is named; and Commodore Jacob Jones, hero of the War of 1812. Many prominent Delawarean family plots are located here as well.
