Grave Stories from Andy's Yard Multi-cache
Grave Stories from Andy's Yard
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All of these souls gave their time to the common good and played a part in our nation’s history. To locate the final cache, you must first find the six sites below and fill in the missing coordinates. This cache was placed with permission from the rector of the church.
St. Andrew's Parish was created by the Maryland Provincial Assembly in 1744. In April, 1766, two acres of land, called Waldrums' Old Field, were purchased from Samuel Bellwood for five pounds currency as a site for the new church. It should be noted that this property fronted on the now abandoned road that was perpendicular to the existing paved road. This abandoned road is still the boundary between the third and eighth election districts of St. Mary's County. One reason the new parish of St. Andrew's had been established was to serve Leonardtown, which had become Maryland's first incorporated town and the county seat of St. Mary's County in 1710. Little is known of the architect of the church, Richard Boulton. He was an indentured servant to Colonel George Plate of Sotterley, an important parishioner of St. Andrew's. Boulton is credited with the construction of the unfinished Chinese Chippendale staircase in Sotterley Mansion. St. Andrew's is considered to be among the most unusual of Maryland colonial churches by virtue of its twin west towers embellished by brick quoin, the inset portico, the two convex tapering columns, the Palladian or Venetian window, the fluted ionic interior columns, the two-level gallery, and the reredos. This information came from www.standrewssomd.org.
The cache container is a medium sized box. The original contents include: invisible ink soccer game book, 2002 Salt Lake City Olympic pin, NPS pass owner’s manual, mini deck of National Park playing cards, Jackson Hole carabiner, tram pen, patriotic bell magnet, key ring, golf ball, moose head pencil topper, post cards, book of cross word puzzles, church bubble blower, and maps. FTF prize is a magnetic poetry creativity kit.
William M. Clements, Maryland SFC Co. Engineers WW1
N 38° 17.270
W 076° 33.115
Grace Hazel Madsen, 1st Lt U.S. Army WWII
N 38° 17.265
W 076° 33.090
Valvard A. Madsen, Pvt. U.S. Army WWII
N 38° 17.265
W 076° 33.090
Edwardina Crane, Deaconess, A trailblazer for women in the church.
N 38° 17.290
W 076° 33.094
Col. George Dent, Capt. in Revolutionary War and Col. in War of 1812
N 38° 17.295
W 076° 33.079
Church Bell
N 38° 17.291
W 076° 33.126.
Final cache coordinates: N 38° 1A.BCD W 076° 33.EEF
Where:
A: The day in April that Valvard Madsen died.
B: The day in January that Grace Madsen died minus seven.
C: The fourth digit in the year engraved on the bell.
D: The sum of the digits of the age of Edwardina Crane.
EE: The last two digits in the number of the SFC Co. of Engineers of William Clements
F: The second digit in the year in which Col. Dent died.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
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