Central's backyard Traditional Cache
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The cache is hidden in an easy "grab and go" place. Stealth will be required. If a service is going on, please be respectful. Plenty of parking. There is only a logsheet, so BYOP.
Note 11/10/05: The first container was muggled. I moved it to a, hopefully, more muggle proof area. You do not need to enter any enclosed areas to find the cache. It is well hidden but also out in the open.
The cemetery at Central Baptist Church of Bearden is older than the church and was originally a community cemetery on private land. The first record of the cemetery on the Knox County records was 1870. The church aquired the cemetery through deed of gift.
The first impression of this cemetery, with its manicured grass, is that it is well cared for. That is only a first impression. Air conditioning units, buildings, and service sheds extend into the cemetery on the east. The ground to the south has been cut away to widen the drive to a parking lot. The fenced playground built on the west side of the cemetery has been expanded to the point the fence lies against markers. A parking lot and covered walkway have cut into the north side of the cemetery. In 1989 there was a satellite dish in an area where a series of grave shaft depressions were faintly visible. (Some depressions were still visible in 1997.) By 1997 the satellite dish had been removed, but a sidewalk had been built diagonally through the cemetery. Markers in the way were relocated as necessary.
In my youth, I went to church here. At that time, there was an old house that sat where the front parking lot is (in front of the covered walkway on the Deane Hill side). The youth minister at the time, and his family, lived in the old house for a period of years until the church decided it needed to expand. this was around 1970. There was also another building next to the house that housed something else but I don't remember whether it was related to the church or not. It might have been an office building.
When the gymnasium was built, back in the '70's, all the old buildings to the west of the church were torn down to make way for future expansion.
I remember going back into the cemetery a few times when I when to church here, but no one really ever made reference to it and it has largly been forgotten, as referenced in the history stated above. At least they keep the grass mowed now.
Some of the headstones are in some very odd places. If you have a few miniutes to spare, take some time to look around the place and see what rapid expansion, in what used to be a rural area, can do to a place that was never meant to be "pigeon holed" into the middle of buildings.
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