Oh!? Stump Up Posthumously:/ Letterbox Hybrid
Oh!? Stump Up Posthumously:/
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A letterbox starting at Rockville Cemetery. Cemetery grounds are open from sunrise to sunset. This is a small-medium sized cammoed container with only room for log book, stamp, stamppad and small swag. Please use stealth as area can have high muggle activity at times. You must SIGN the log. If you do not sign or stamp the log, you have not found it and your log will be deleted. Please do not remove stamp and pad, they are not geoswag;)
The posted coordinates will take you to a plaque in the Cemetary parking lot. The final is a short drive away from posted coordinates. Here you will need to find the following: N 38 16.ABC W 122 06.DAB A: Number of letters in the fourth word on line 1 B: first number on line 3 C:: fourth number on line 3 D: number of letters in fifth word on line 7 Checksum for ABCD is 17 Here is some interesting historical info about this cemetery: Before there was a Rockville Cemetery, there was the Rockville Stone Chapel. But before there was a stone chapel, people had traveled here from many miles for religious camp meetings. Burials had also been taken place here due to its religious uses. Finally, a stone chapel was built and dedicated here in February 1857 under the name "Methodist Episcopal Church South". More burials took place now that a church building was on site. At the start of the Civil War, many parishioners argued over their differences between the North and South. By Christmas of 1863, the congregation had split over their political and social leanings, causing church membership to decline. Meanwhile, families continued to bury their deceased on chapel grounds. More land was needed for additional grave space. In 1879, Lewis Pierce deeded three adjacent acres for $1 in gold. Then J.M. Baldwin deeded 268 more acres.But wIth membership continuing to decline, the chapel and cemetery fell into disrepair. In 1928, the church was sold to John Dahlstrom, at the time the caretaker of the cemetery. But with little funds to make repairs, he sold it to Solano County. The County in turn formed the Rockville Public Cemetery District to raise funds. However, both the chapel and cemetery continued unmaintained. It wasn't until 1940 that funds and workers provided by the Works Progress Administration was able to restore the building and grounds. In 2007, the Rockville Public Cemetery District was absorbed into the Suisun Fairfield Cemetery District, and renamed, "Suisun Fairfield Rockville Cemetery District". There is more info at www.solanocemeteries.us
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