Bowers Cemetery Multi-Cache
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This is a two-stage multi-cache that will take you to a cemetery were some of the early settlers in Northern Nevada were laid to rest. The cache container is located in the adjoining park, but is not in the cemetery.
Cemeteries should always be treated with respect. Please stay outside the fence at this location.
The Bowers Mansion was built in 1863 by Lemuel "Sandy" Bowers and his wife, Eilley, and is the finest example of the homes built in Nevada by the new millionaires of the Comstock mining boom. The land originally was purchased in 1856 by Eilley and her first husband Alex Cowan, who returned to Utah a year later with other Mormon settlers. Eilley secured a divorce and moved to Gold Canyon where she ran a boarding house and later acquired the mining claim which, together with that belonging to her second husband Sandy, became the source of their fortune. The mansion was the fulfillment of Eilley's dreams of prestige and respectability. The mansion, designed by J. Neeley Johnson, a builder and ex-governor of California, combined Georgian and Italianate architectural styles. It was modeled after a design conceived by Eilley based on her recollection of elegant buildings in her native Scotland. Indeed, the Bowers employed stonecutters from Scotland for the construction of their new home, which eventually cost $400,000 to build, an exorbitant sum in the 1860s. Eilley and Sandy toured Europe from 1861 to 1863, purchasing furniture, statuary, painting and other adornments for their home.
The gravesite sits in back of the mansion at the top of a rise. In the early 1990s, a group of Masons erected a new stone at the site. Before that time only the three individual small gravestones were there. There are five members of the Bowers family buried at this site.
Fill in the following coordinates using the clues
N 39 17.AAA W 119 5A.5BB
John the infant was born and died in 186A
Margaret Persia Bowers was born in 186B
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Qb lbh frr gung ybt?
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