SQ - Franklin Cemetery Traditional Cache
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This is a lovely cemetery outside historic Franklin. Michigan law dictates ABSOLUTELY NO NIGHT CACHING. Gates are locked promptly at 5 pm. Please be respectful of your surroundings. This is an easy find but does require stealth as this location can be very popular
The "SQ" in the geocache name denotes a Geocaching Spirit Quest. This designation is to distinguish geocaches that are placed in cemeteries or memorial gardens and have a more spiritual meaning than most geocaches that are out in the rest of the world. Please be respectful of the surroundings. Be a good geocaching role model: leave no trace and CITO when possible..
In 1827, Elijah Bullock, one of the founders of the Stoughton Bullock Settlement (renamed Franklin in 1828), set aside land for a burial ground. This parcel, known as "the Old Plat," is in the southeast corner of the cemetery. The cemetery contains the remains of some of Franklin's earliest settlers. Of the fifteen original landowners, four are buried here: Melvin Drake, Hiram Pike, William Stoughton, and Jonathan Worthing.
Franklin Cemetery started as a 1-acre burial ground in 1827. The first of the six expansions occurred in 1848 when Benjamin and Charlotte Worthing donated an acre of farmland adjacent to the original cemetery. The Franklin Cemetery Society organized in 1852 to manage and maintain the burial ground. The cemetery contains typical nineteenth-century grave markers, including urns, obelisks, tree trunks, weeping willows and benches.
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