Davenport Brothers
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Mr. T 2752
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Wednesday, July 21, 2004
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New York, United States
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To visit William Davenport's grave in Australia and return to visit his brother Ira's grave again and then be placed in a nearby cache if possible.
In 1855, Ira and William Davenport debuted as psychic's in Buffalo, NY and became the most famous psychic's and magicians of the 1800's. Their routines came to include escapes as they became famous world wide. Their career ended on July 1,1877 when William died in Sydney, Australia. Hiis stone had ropes, chains and the brother's Spirit Cabinet engraved on it according to some sources but this does not show on the pyramid shaped stone now there. Ira retired to Mayville, NY where Harry Houdini visited him in 1910 to learn secrets of some Davenport escape tricks. Ira died on July 8, 1911. Houdini wrote about the visit in his 1924 book, A MAGICIAN AMONG THE SPIRITS, The Davenports were also documented by Thomas Low Nichols in, A BIOGRAPHY OF THE BROTHERS DAVENPORT. Ira's scrap book is in the library at the nearby Spiritualist Community of Lilly Dale, NY. Ira is buried in Mayville, NY Cemetery in the big circle. N 42 Deg. 15.722, W 79 Deg. 29.766. The ultimate goal of this TB is to visit Williams grave in Australia and return to Mayville, Chautauqua County, NY to visit Ira's grave and then retire. It is most important for this TB to travel but it would like to visit the graves of magicians, spiritualist centers, magic shops and anything theme related along the way. The ceramic rabbit which accompanies this TB as a symbol of magicians, among other things, should be safe to take to Australia where they have had real rabbit problems in the past. Williams grave is located in the Sydney, Australia Rookwood Cemetery near the Lidcombe Railway station. Church of England Necropolis, Section E, Grave number 848. Coordinates are: 33' 51.986S 151" 03.148E
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Discovered it. Thank you for sharing.
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Discovered at the CITO, thanks for sharing!
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Discovered it. Thank you for sharing.
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Papa EGTH discovered it
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Discovered during the [url=http://coord.info/GC4ZBYQ]Rio Linda Trail and Dry Creek Cito[/url].
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rubberpaws discovered it
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nice to see this one moving around again.
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tufbill discovered it
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discovered at CITO event today
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HockeyHiker19 grabbed it
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I snagged this travel bug today at a CITO in Rio Linda, which is near Sacramento, California. Papa EGTH and I will be attending Geowoodstock in St. Charles, Missouri in May and I promised to bring this TB to the event to drop it into a bin for trackables that want to visit Australia. Hopefully this bug will then be able to make it Down Under soon after Geowoodstock!
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Gomez & PJ discovered it
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Discovered at today's CITO in Rio Linda, CA. Hope he makes it down under before to long. Once he gets there maybe he can say Hi to my cousin in Perth, who caches as well. Thanks for sharing.
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Davenport Brothers should be receiving a lot of Discovered entries and one Found. I brought the TB to Rio Linda Trail and Dry Creek CITO (GC4ZBYQ). After all the attendees who were interested logged the but I passed it on to HockeyHiker and PapaEGTH who will be attending the next Geo Woodstock. They promised to find a geocacher heading to Australia so the TB can finally finish the fist half of its journey. It was a fun find and fun to have in my custody for a while.
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tumbleweed2 discovered it
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Saw this while chatting with rmhopper. Thanks for sharing. Wow! Glad to see this one is back out there after such a long vacation!
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