No Night Caching!!! Cemetery Cache
September is the International Underground Railroad Month. The month was chosen because it was the month two of the most famous freedom seekers and Undergound Railroad operatives, Frederick Douglas and Harriet Tubman, escaped from slavery.
Pleasant Hill Cemetery is recognized by th National Park Service Network to Freedom as a signifiacant Underground Railroad site. This multi cache will take you to several gravstones that relate to the resistance to enslavement.
Stage 1 Takes you to the gravestone of Dr. Simon Hyde a conductor on the Underground Railroad.
From Stage 1 walk directly west to the grave of Joe Selby, Stage 2. Joe Selby was a runaway slave who died while trying to reach freedom in Canada. His story inspired the song "Darling Nelly Gray" by Benjamin Hanby, who also wrote the Christmas song "Up on the House Top".
From Stage 2 walk directly south to another marker honoring those who also died in the pursuit of freedom.
To find the final cache stage A=the remains of at least _ Enslaved people who died on their quest for freedom
Walk directly west into the trees "A" Steps. The cache is near the fence line
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N39 45.5A2
W82 25.A00
No Night Caching!!! Cemetery Cache