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I know that caching in cemeteries can be controversial. I always find them to be interesting places -- the histories, stories, and lives that are found there can be important, usually just a glimpse into the past or a vague whisper on the wind. Still, I rarely visit them except for caching or letterboxing, so I am glad when the game takes me to them. Some of my favorites involve virtual caches that cannot be shown here. But these are a few places I have been glad to visit. Please post some of what you have found during the course of caching.

 

I visited Perrin cemetery in Louisiana tracking down a locationless. It is said to be the place where Napoleon, the pirate Lafitte, and Jean Paul Jones are buried -- albeit in unmarked graves:

 

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Hopper Slave Cemetery had a lot of history:

 

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Boot Hill at Pioche was another place full of history. If you are in that part of Nevada and want something to do besides repetitive caching, it is a good place to visit . On the way over there, we found trilobites and amazing rock formations at earthcaches. A local establishment saw one of my pictures on Flickr and asked permission to use it. It may have been this one:

 

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But sometimes things can be found in more unexpected locations. There is a cache along a rural road north of where I live, just another cache in a series of them. But I am glad I stopped for this one:

 

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Last night I thought that I should add some pictures to my Flickr page and was reminded of some of the interesting cemeteries in Scotland. Several had nearby caches, including this one:

 

Eilean Chaluim Chille

 

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While there, we visited a few ancient burial spots that did not have caches, but this one from a previous visit to England does. I suppose it could be called a cemetery. I would like some of my ashes to be scattered in a place such as this.

 

West Kennett Longbarrow (Wilts)

 

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Cemetery caches are my thing. I currently have 28 cemetery caches in my county (Decatur County, IN) that are located in old, abandoned cemeteries. With each one I waymark interresting headstones and headstones of Civil War soldiers that died during the war. Through that I ended up writing a book detailing all the soldiers of Decatur County that died in the war and also made it a cache. I have also gone out and discovered long lost cemeteries on private property and photographed/documented them for Find-A-Grave. Those are Watt Cemetery, Howard Cemetery, McLaughlin Cemetery, and the Gullion Headstone.

 

As an aside, I have it set in my will that my ashes are to be located in one of the abandoned cemeteries in my county (Patrick if you look at my caches). I donated money to the local township the cemeteries is in. I also have requested an old looking period related headstone be made so that it blends in with the rest.

 

Some of the neat headstones I've come across:

 

Morris Morris

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Grave in the middle of the road and the associated geocache

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I am planning a trip to see my daughter in Massachusetts and realize that I could get up very early on one side of the trip or the other and a two hour drive will take me to HP Lovecraft's grave for a virtual and a new state. Since I drove a similar length to see a grave and do a puzzle cache on Vancouver Island, it is not out of the question by any means.

 

The downside is that the cemetery rules require all photography to have a permit regardless of whether it is for personal use; all photos that are published (as they would be on this site) to have written consent with a detailed statement of intent; and that photography is limited to landscape, nature, and architectural designs, which would exclude one grave site that I am most interested in photographing. No photography of gravestones is permitted.

 

I have always believed that cemetery photos honor the history and the people resting there, and have never seen this kind of restriction before. If I go there, I will sadly obey the rules since I do not want to include a photo in my log that might cause an issue for the virtual. But has anyone else encountered this type of restriction when visiting a cemetery?

 

What fun would it have been to visit Birth of a Nation and not be able to photograph any of the grave markers there?

 

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One of my first caches was a cemetery cache. Here are a couple of photos I snapped. The first one shows some nice old ironworks on the gate. The second one is a tombstone that caught my eye... a child's hand pointing to heaven at the top, and it says Died Nov. 12, 1839, Aged 12 days.post-8251746-028369100 1417719738_thumb.jpg

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I also love the ghost cemeteries. This was one of my favorite find areas. Osceola, Nevada. Most headstone predate 1880, and are actively visited. Vibrant flowers left by distant relatives. The cemetery sits pretty high on the mountain, overlooking the Nevada Desert. It was quite beautiful. 4E66F42A-96D6-44EB-BEEC-9CE5AE7BFF2C.jpeg.257e3eb45d1bcabd9f3b7fc89068605a.jpeg

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These two photos are from cemeteries I have visited.  The first is in a cemetery in Buenos Aires, Argentina, called La Recoleta (Cementerio de la Recoleta).  It is a fascinating place and in some areas it resembles a sculpture garden.  Many famous people are buried there including EVA Peron.  The geocache that was in the cemetery was Recoleta Cemetery, GC1MG9V (archived). The second photo is from the Brooksville cemetery in Brooksville, Florida.  The statue is by the grave of a boy who died in the early 20th century.  And unfortunately, Florida does not allow geocaches in cemeteries.  My geocache near the cemetery is Murals of Brooksville, GC72W2D.

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In Burgos (Spain), close to Sto. Domingo de Silos monastry you can find the location where the Sad Hill Cemetery from the movie "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" was recorded. After the filming the set was abandoned, but a few years ago, a group of enthusiastic people from the villages surrounding rebuilt it. If you are premium member, you can go searching the cache GC6PBG2

 

 

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The Lyin' Cache

 

I have been to a lot of cemeteries, and this is my favorite one. It's so beautiful. Oakland cemetery in Atlanta, Georgia. "The Lion of Atlanta" was patterned after the "Lion of Lucerne" monument, which I've always wanted to see in person. Unfortunately, because the Lion of Atlanta was a statue dedicated to the Confederate soldiers buried in the cemetery, it was horribly defaced last year. The virtual was archived, and the statue has been removed to preserve it from further damage. I'm so glad we got to see it before it was gone.

 

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