Rambler's Evil Micro! Traditional Geocache
TheAlabamaRambler: I moved to PA and the cachers who were maintaining it for me dropped out of the game. The cache is probably still there, but it's a very hard to find nano...thus the name! If anyone wants to look for it call me and I will get you close or tell you where it is, your choice. 814-907-2414
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*Not in the cemetery!*
Easily accessed nano in the woods on fairly level terrain, 50' from parking.
Thanks Clay Pigeons for keeping this one going while I was unable.
As the name implies, this is the most difficult to find cache that I have hidden.
Placed Christmas Eve of 2004 this cache is a salute to all the great caches and cachers of the Alabama Geocachers Association ((AGA) www.DixieCachers.com) that have brought me such joy all these years.
Located one block from my home, this delightful little cemetery has been surrounded by a city the folks interred here could never have dreamed of. The last burial here was in 1942, with most being prior to the 1920s.
Some of those buried here perished in the March 25th 1901 F3 tornado that moved across parts of Birmingham, Alabama. The twister cut a 15 mile path from the south side of the city across to Avondale and then into Irondale.
Locals tell of haunting sounds, wails and even singing - some say that if you sit quietly here at night you can hear the singing of old Negro spirituals.
This haunting is attributed to a Negro woman buried here.
It has been established that a branch of the local Stewart family, Negro rail workers employed by the nearby Norris rail yard at the Irondale whistle stop, 'passed' themselves off as white in the early 1900s. Molly Stewart was quite fair in complexion and ended up marrying a white railroad-man named Ben Franklin in Irondale.
After Franklin died, the family moved to Michigan and the children to this day pass for white, although ancient U.S. laws (unfortunately still on the books) require that a person with one-sixteenth of Negro blood be classified as black or colored.
Buried as a white woman in a white cemetery, the Negro spirituals heard here are supposed to be calling Molly back to her roots.
The cache is outside the cemetery - the family that owns it lives next door and maintains the property. They don't object to visitors; the gate is unlocked if you want to look around, but you do NOT have to enter the cemetery to get the cache...in fact you can't access it from inside.
DO NOT attempt to access the cache from the nearby interstate off-ramp!
If you hunt this one at night you are liable to be questioned by our wonderful Irondale Police. Mention to them that Officer Ronnie Melton knows the geocaching game, knows the cache is here and helped me learn about the place. This may get you left alone or arrested, depending on how Ronnie has been acting lately!
Have fun and THANKS! to all the cachers that make this game so much fun!
I want my caches to be found! If you don't want to come back call me for a hint - 205-914-6814
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