Glenwood Cemetery North
Glenwood Cemetery in Alvarado - Makes a nice spot for a Travel Bug Hotel.
This is a regular cache with 2 Travel Bugs to start.
It is filled with toys for kids. Please trade one for one.
Please Please Please - - if you take a Travel Bug/Trackable Item - - SIGN it OUT!!! Please.
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Glenwood Cemetery is a nice quiet cemetery for taking a nice walk. This is part of our family's Graves and More Graves Series of Geocaches. Please sign the logbook and please trade only trackable geocoins and bugs (meaning don't take a bug without exchanging another bug). Don't disappoint a child coming to trade a Trackable Coin or Bug and then not finding one at the cache. There are also a few trading items for kids.
Two early area families established cemeteries at this site in the 1870s. During that time, the Campbell and Sansom families purchased land in this vicinity. The first documented burial is that of seven-month-old Ula Sansom (d. 1876), who was buried in the Sansom family plot. The following year, Louisianna Campbell (1826-1877), was buried in the Campbell plot. Several more burials were made during the next two decades. In 1881, the railroad came to Alvarado, bringing with it many new residents. With more families in the area and a growing need for additional cemetery space, many buried their loved ones in the vicinity of the Sansom and Campbell plots. In 1896, the local Knight of Pythias and I.O.O.F. lodges established burial grounds on land surrounding the two family plots. During the Great Depression, the City of Alvarado took over care for the cemeteries, which were known collectively as Glenwood Cemetery. Additional land enlarged the graveyard, for which in 1970 a cemetery association formed to maintain and preserve the site. Today, the burial ground remains a link to early pioneers and the history of generations of Alvarado residents.
Please Please Please - - if you take a Travel Bug/Trackable Item - - SIGN it OUT!!! Please.
Goto: http://www.geocaching.com/track/