This is the bonus cache for the Tree Identification Adventure Lab. By now, you have found 5 trees that are common in Maine, a Norway Spruce, a Red Oak, a Sugar Maple, a White Ash and a Hemlock. As you walked through the cemetery, did you notice some of the famous people buried here?
Visiting these memorials is not required to find either the lab or the bonus cache.
To get the coordinates, count the letters used in the answers to the adventure lab. The most common letter is the key to enter in the checker.
You can validate your puzzle solution with certitude.
Emma Eames
was an American soprano renowned for the beauty of her voice. She sang major lyric and lyric-dramatic roles in opera and had an important career in New York, London and Paris during the last decade of the 19th century and the first decade of the 20th century.
Peter Garland
was an officer and director of Garland Manufacturing Co. in Saco, Maine, and Snocraft Co. in Norway, Maine. Garland was elected as a Republican to the Eighty-seventh Congress. Garland was a town manager for Gorham, Maine a marketing director for an engineering firm, a city manager for Claremont, New Hampshire, a community manager for Ocean Pines, Ocean City, Maryland, a town manager for Searsport, Maine and a city manager for Bath, Maine.
Thomas W. Hyde
began his Union Army service as a major in the 7th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment. He went on to command the Brigade 3, Division 2, VI Corps of the Army of the Shenandoah and the Army of the Potomac. Hyde was present at several key Civil War battles, including the Second Battle of Bull Run, the Battle of Antietam (for which he later received the Medal of Honor), and the Battle of Gettysburg. He was also present at Confederate General Robert E. Lee's surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox Court House, Virginia. Hyde served three terms in the Maine Senate, including two as president. He became mayor of Bath and founded Bath Iron Works.
Arthur Sewall
and his brother were successful and wealthy shipbuilders He served as President of the Maine Central railroad and served as President of the Bath National Bank. He came out in support of free silver and at the 1896 Democratic National Convention he was nominated as the vice-presidential candidate, along with presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan.
Sumner Sewall
dropped out of Harvard College to go to Europe to aid the Allies during World War I. Sewall returned home with the Distinguished Service Cross with oak leaf cluster, the French Legion of Honor, the Croix de guerre and the Order of the Crown of Belgium. After the war, he became an alderman in Bath. He was elected to the Maine state legislature as a representative, then a senator. After the latter election, he was named President of the State Senate. He was elected governor, and served two terms. Sewall's administration was notable for cleaning up scandals in state government and passing a minimum wage law for state teachers.