Cemeteries

[+geodarts 77]

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:

 

 

Hopper Slave Cemetery had a lot of history:

 

 

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:

 

 

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:

 

[Tyreless 1]

 

I liked the image of a living tree slowly pushing the gravestone over - a life and death struggle. Doctor Who - Blink.

[+Ambrosia 107]

Thank you! I love cemeteries so much. I've visited a lot.

 

Frenchtown History

 

 

Down To The Sea

 

 

 

Patriots in the Woodlands

 

 

[+lumbricus 53]

I love cemeteries too! But we have no caches here at them. So all my pictures have been taken through Waymarking trips and we are here in the Geocaching forum.

[+geodarts 77]

I love cemeteries too! But we have no caches here at them. So all my pictures have been taken through Waymarking trips and we are here in the Geocaching forum.

 

What are your favorite Waymarking photos?

[+lumbricus 53]

I love the details, some examples:

 

 

 

 

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[+geodarts 77]

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

 

 

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)

 

Edited July 30, 2014 by geodarts

[+Viajero Perdido 873]

Don't let this happen to you.

 

[+joshuar9476 0]

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

 

Grave in the middle of the road and the associated geocache

Edited September 16, 2014 by joshuar9476

[+geodarts 77]

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?

 

Edited October 22, 2014 by geodarts

[+Zuuk 0]

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.

[+hzoi 1580]

My favorite cemetery cached so far has to be Live Oaks Cemetery in Selma, Alabama (just west of Edmund Pettus Bridge). I had a great time there with my IR-only camera.

 

 

 

 

It's just not a great cemetery unless it's overrun with Spanish moss.

[+geodarts 77]

Caching among the Spirits at San Jose de Armijo

 

[Team Swifties 0]

I'm putting it in my will that upon my death, a cache shall be placed on my grave.

[+geodarts 77]

Spirit of the Forgotten

 

[+worstcaster 0]

These two stones are in a cemetery in Delhi, NY. I thought they looked pretty cool, so I took a picture.

 

 

[+geodarts 77]

The Rhyolite/Bullfrog Cache brought us to a cemetery near the Rhyolite ghost town. Very few markers are left, and even most of those no longer record a name - although records show who lies here, with miners, prospectors, a brothel owner, and a book salesman among them. The mounds throughout the lot tell their own story of life and death in the Nevada desert.

 

 

[+geodarts 77]

This virtual marked a resting place of several pioneers. It also reminded me of a standing stone:

 

[+lumbricus 53]

No idea why the pictures from my first post here are broken, so I post some of my favorite cemetery pictures again, I love the details.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[+Ambrosia 107]

These are from a really nice multi that we did last year: Coeur d'Alene Veterans Historic Tour

 

I need to upload more photos from the cemetery, I've only uploaded the angel pictures because I like statues.

 

 

 

[+Bohemian1966 0]

Has anyone created a Cache hidden in a Gravestone?

 

I am considering creating one for myself when I die... with a spooky sounds audio trigger to enhance the creepy factor.

[+niraD 3296]

Has anyone created a Cache hidden in a Gravestone?

I haven't seen any actually hidden in a gravestone. But I have found a cache that was left next to a gravestone, in full compliance with the cemetery's policy for families leaving "memorial objects" at grave sites.

[+geodarts 77]

Knickerbocker Boneyard - what visit to Sleepy Hollow would be complete without a stop at the cemetery. From the Headless Horseman to Dark Shadows, from a labor leader to those who reached the pinnacle of wealth.

 

 

Edited June 27, 2016 by geodarts

[+geodarts 77]

I am a fan of ghost town cemeteries, like Not Six Feet Under in Sego, Utah.

 

[RuideAlmeida 579]

An old cache between France and Germany. My link

 

[+HunterandSamuel 225]

On 10/1/2016 at 1:52 PM, geodarts said:

I am a fan of ghost town cemeteries, like Not Six Feet Under in Sego, Utah.

 

 

I love this one!

 

[+Ry Dawg 33]

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. 

[+Smitherington 0]

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.

Edited August 3, 2020 by Smitherington
Added geocache info

[+Smitherington 0]

I was geocaching in a cemetery in the thumb area of Michigan and saw this stone and figured they did not know what to engrave so they left it Blank.  This was near SQ Moore, GC659EZ.

Edited August 3, 2020 by Smitherington
Added geocache info

[+Goldenwattle 1654]

St Stephen Cemetery in Norwich, UK, is beside a Mall, and is used as parkland to rest and have lunch in. The church runs a cafe inside. One of the paths to the Mall goes through the cemetery.

[+Goldenwattle 1654]

Cemetery in Auckland, NZ.

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Many cemeteries are placed to give them a view.

[+Goldenwattle 1654]

Cemetery 'art'.

[+Goldenwattle 1654]

Encroached.

[+Goldenwattle 1654]

Night visit.

[RuideAlmeida 579]

All amazing pictures, but please try to always add a link to the nearby cache.

[+cdama54 0]

I love going to cemetery's, finding the oldest and youngest.