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Erasing History: Spooner Well LbNA #49378

Owner:BlackA
Plant date:Aug 1, 2009
Location: Brookfield Cemetery
City:Brookfield
County:Worcester
State:Massachusetts
Boxes:1
Found by: Nairon
Last found:Nov 23, 2019
Status:FFFFFFFFFFFFFFaFFOFF
Last edited:Apr 29, 2018
This is a start to a series called "Erasing History". I'm trying my hand at carving on erasers, old school.

HISTORY: In 1778 in rural Brookfield, a desperate woman by the name of Bathesheba Spooner decided that the solution to her many problems was to have her husband murdered. The events that followed were soon labeled by local newspapers as the most extraordinary crime ever perpetrated in New England. -Quabbin (A History and Explorers Guide) by Michael Tougias. Spooner Well and a stone explaining the grizzly details of March 1, 1778 can be found on East Main Street in Brookfield, MA. Because of the poison ivy, the box is not hidden there. * Incidentally, Bathsheba was the last woman in Massachusetts to suffer capital punishment.

DIRECTIONS: The Spooner Well Letterbox is located in Brookfield Cemetery on Route 9 in Brookfield, MA.

CLUES: The clues start at the arched gateway to Brookfield Cemetery. After entering the cemetery at the arched gateway, turn right and walk along the stone wall until you come to a break in the wall with two stone pillars. When you come to the two pillars stop. Turn around and you can read Joshua Spooner's tombstone. To find the box, continue walking with the stone wall on your right side until you get to the corner of the cemetery. Turn left and take 11 steps along the stone wall. At the base of the wall there is a space that goes completely under the wall. The letterbox is under the space, in the ground with a flat rock place on top of the box. It's tricky to find, but that's what letterboxing is about, right? (The Two Putnums Letterbox is also located in the Brookfield Cemetery.)