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Tempus Fugit #2 (Monroe Center Cemetery) LbNA #55967

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:Oct 9, 2010
Location:
City:Monroe
County:Fairfield
State:Connecticut
Boxes:1
Planted by:Skip & TJ
Found by: toolie bird
Last found:Jan 2, 2023
Status:FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
Last edited:Nov 16, 2015
CLUES:(PLEASE ENJOY THIS LETTERBOX RESPECTFULLY AND DURING DAYLIGHT HOURS.)

TEMPUS FUGIT #2 (Monroe Center Cemetery, est. 1776)

www.monroehistoricsociety.org/buryinggrounds

Follow Rt 111N to the intersection with Rt 110. Turn onto Rt 110 and look on your left for the Whitney Farms Golf Course and Restaurant. Your next right is Old Tannery Road. Turn right onto Old Tannery, and park. The cemetery is on your left.

This letterbox has two stamps, each concealed in different locations in the cemetery. The first stamp is contained in a small black plastic pouch and is the TOP of the tombstone. It is a winged hourglass, representing the "tempus fugit" (time flies) image carved into many colonial gravestones. When you have found the Top, STAMP IN. The second stamp which is the TEXT of the tombstone is contained in a box along with a pad. No ink is provided, so bring your own.

TOP:(replaced 5.28.11, relocated 12.01.11)) At the main gate of the cemetery, there is a large engraved stone: "Monroe Center Cemetery Est. 1776." Stand facing the stone, turn left, and walk 44 steps along the OUTSIDE of the stone wall. Turn toward the cemetery, and you should line up with a bush and with the flagpole inside. Look past the bush toward the stone wall, and see a smallish triangular stone that serves as a plug or filler between the larger stones in the wall. Pull out that stone to find the TOMBSTONE TOP. Replace it in exactly the same spot, please.(PLEASE DON'T STEAL IT!)

TEXT: Go back through the main gate to the flagpole. With the flagpole at your left shoulder, look leftish, all the way toward the woods. See the large white ghostly boulder at the edge of the woods? Behind the right side, under some rocks, you will find the TOMBSTONE TEXT.

Stamp in. PLEASE replace the box carefully.