Old Burying Ground LbNA #4196 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Jun 6, 2003 |
| Location: | Ranney Street |
| City: | Cromwell |
| County: | Middlesex |
| State: | Connecticut |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Found by: | Ober234 |
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| Last found: | Mar 18, 2014 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFFFFOFFFFFFar |
| Last edited: | Mar 15, 2016 |
Note: I found these clues in the basement, but the box is alive and well and in place. :) If the original planters would like to reclaim it, just contact me and I'd be happy to hand it back over. In the meantime, I wanted to get this box back online. This is one of the boxes I found on my first day ever of letterboxing! --Brandy
Placed by FjordhorseLynn and BubbaTroySondae
Rated: Easy, this is a drive by box
Time: 30 minutes or less
Driving directions:
Exit 19 off Route 9. Take Rt. 372 (West St.) East. Right onto Allen Road. Right onto Timber Hill Road, then quick left onto Ranney Street. See cemetery on left, park on street.
Please be discrete and do not move stones. Bring bug spray.
NOTE: 1 pace is counted for each step (L-R-L = 3 paces)
Clues to the box:
Enter through
A crooked gate
A field of stones
Your treasure waits.
Standing straight
In front of you
A child's brown stone
Is shared by two.
Take 7 paces east
Then 20 north
Savage children you seek
Will be brought forth.
Pass two cedars
Near and far
Until you reach
The iron bar.
Look for Elizabeth
Wife of Fletch
Hope she didn't die
A miserable wretch.
Next from this spot
North you must head
36 paces from the stone
You just fled.
If you followed this hunt
Then you cannot fail
To arrive at the stone
Of the friend of Hale.
Together these two
Grindley and Hale
Shared the same room
During college at Yale.
Now head northeast
To a grassy mound
Find something grave
When you traverse around.
O'er the top of the tomb
Concealing the bones
Look to the southeast
To find the three stones.
Taller than neighbors
In a cluster of three
Francis, two Abigails and
Russell McKee.
A fiery end
One lost at sea
An orphan's friend
These lost souls be.
Straight down the row
'Til you find the pox
Closer and closer
You come to the box.
Count three stones south
And three stones west
Where old man Ranny's
Laid to rest.
'Twas the first in this place
To find eternal slumber
The twin on the right
The box lies under.
Placed by FjordhorseLynn and BubbaTroySondae
Rated: Easy, this is a drive by box
Time: 30 minutes or less
Driving directions:
Exit 19 off Route 9. Take Rt. 372 (West St.) East. Right onto Allen Road. Right onto Timber Hill Road, then quick left onto Ranney Street. See cemetery on left, park on street.
Please be discrete and do not move stones. Bring bug spray.
NOTE: 1 pace is counted for each step (L-R-L = 3 paces)
Clues to the box:
Enter through
A crooked gate
A field of stones
Your treasure waits.
Standing straight
In front of you
A child's brown stone
Is shared by two.
Take 7 paces east
Then 20 north
Savage children you seek
Will be brought forth.
Pass two cedars
Near and far
Until you reach
The iron bar.
Look for Elizabeth
Wife of Fletch
Hope she didn't die
A miserable wretch.
Next from this spot
North you must head
36 paces from the stone
You just fled.
If you followed this hunt
Then you cannot fail
To arrive at the stone
Of the friend of Hale.
Together these two
Grindley and Hale
Shared the same room
During college at Yale.
Now head northeast
To a grassy mound
Find something grave
When you traverse around.
O'er the top of the tomb
Concealing the bones
Look to the southeast
To find the three stones.
Taller than neighbors
In a cluster of three
Francis, two Abigails and
Russell McKee.
A fiery end
One lost at sea
An orphan's friend
These lost souls be.
Straight down the row
'Til you find the pox
Closer and closer
You come to the box.
Count three stones south
And three stones west
Where old man Ranny's
Laid to rest.
'Twas the first in this place
To find eternal slumber
The twin on the right
The box lies under.