"On a serene hillside road nestled in a charming residential area of old summer cottages and new construction, a white picket fence surrounds the Hacienda Cemetery in New Almaden. Located on the east bank of the Arroyo de Los Alamitos Creek, it provides the final resting place of the New Almaden Quicksilver miners and their families who lived in the hills northeast of the cemetery in Cornish and Spanish Towns from the early 1850s to the 1920s. Once through the picket gate, the walkways are lined with a carpet of rich green myrtle, mature laurels and oaks, which create a shadowy presence above the fenced grave cribs, some marked with rare Italian marble headstones, others with aged wood markers. Flowers adorn a number of the plots."
"The cemetery remained in use through the 1920s until Ben Black, a musician best known for writing the song, "Moonlight and Roses," bought all of the property east of Los Alamitos Creek from the Quicksilver Mining Company and planned to subdivide it — even the old cemetery. One night in the spring of 1928, he cut a road through the center of the tract, across the cemetery and over a number of unknown graves. Outraged, the residents of New Almaden filed a lawsuit against Black who then could not sell the lots and stopped paying taxes. The property went to tax sale and was purchased by California Pioneer member Gene Vennum. On June 6, 1974 Vennum quitclaimed the cemetery to the California Pioneers of Santa Clara County."
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You can walk through both halves of the cemetery. The upper part has a pair of historical markers and a display board with copies fascinating articles, including one on a nearby girl's grave with a long tradition. There is also a unique grave for a man's arm.
The cache is a 35mm film cannister and is hidden on the outside of the cemetery. You do not have to enter the cemetery to find the cache itself. It is not any of the neighbors' private property. There is no need to rummage through foliage or anything else, so please don't. :) The cache is actually in plain sight. This is a quiet, secluded neighborhood and it is a cemetery, so please be on your best behavior.