Cove Cemetery HAS BEEN REMOVED 4/2/2008 LbNA #4733 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Jul 11, 2003 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Hadlyme |
| County: | New London |
| State: | Connecticut |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | SwampYankee&Sunshine  |
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| Found by: | WWW |
| Last found: | Oct 28, 2008 |
| Status: | OFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF |
| Last edited: | Jul 11, 2003 |
Cove Cemetery
This box was removed for safe keeping 4/2/2008. Many boxes were stolen at the Castle recently. this box will reappear as a mystery in the future
1/4 mile from the Connecticut River ferry landing on Route 148 (Ferry Rd.) Hadlyme, CT
This box is very near Gillette’s Castle and The Honey Tree boxes.
This is a very easy find, but how long it takes depends on you…
Among the people buried here is Dr. Alice Hamilton, the first female professor at Harvard Medical School and her sister, Edith Hamilton, president of Bryn Mawr College. Also, Austin Spencer, who with his father, Isaac, and brother, William, established a shipyard just above the ferry landing. Later when the Comstock family ran the shipyard, they produced ships used in the brownstone trade until 1888, including two of the largest 3-masted schooners built on the river.
Take a few minutes…
Enter the small cemetery on the left side by going over the low stonewall. Notice the grave markers that look like tree stumps and logs. Off to your left you’ll see a Canadian flag marking a gravesite. Continue to the back of the cemetery and find a semi-circular, stone, IN MEMORIAM, bench. Set a spell and look out on Whalebone Cove.
In spring, see the bright yellow flag iris in bloom. Summer brings families of swans, herons, osprey, and egrets, to mention a few. Fall is when the wild rice is plentiful. The redwing blackbirds chatter as they eat their fill. Imagine the Native Americans harvesting the grain into the bottom of their canoes. Winter ice can transform the tidal cove into a winter wonderland.
Continue to the right side and find a tall hedge of boxwood. Hiding behind are several large stones flat on the ground, three of which have beautiful castings. With your back to the one with the three masted sailing vessel, walk to the flat stones between the two tall pine trees. Be careful of the huge poison ivy vine growing on the right tree. You’ll see a lighter colored stone with more square, darker ones to it’s left. Look under the second one, and find the Cove Cemetery Letterbox nestled in a bed of pine needles.
We hope you’ve enjoyed your walk through history, and have admired the pretty cove. Happy Boxing!!
Sunshine, Swamp Yankee, and The Toad Dog
This box was removed for safe keeping 4/2/2008. Many boxes were stolen at the Castle recently. this box will reappear as a mystery in the future
1/4 mile from the Connecticut River ferry landing on Route 148 (Ferry Rd.) Hadlyme, CT
This box is very near Gillette’s Castle and The Honey Tree boxes.
This is a very easy find, but how long it takes depends on you…
Among the people buried here is Dr. Alice Hamilton, the first female professor at Harvard Medical School and her sister, Edith Hamilton, president of Bryn Mawr College. Also, Austin Spencer, who with his father, Isaac, and brother, William, established a shipyard just above the ferry landing. Later when the Comstock family ran the shipyard, they produced ships used in the brownstone trade until 1888, including two of the largest 3-masted schooners built on the river.
Take a few minutes…
Enter the small cemetery on the left side by going over the low stonewall. Notice the grave markers that look like tree stumps and logs. Off to your left you’ll see a Canadian flag marking a gravesite. Continue to the back of the cemetery and find a semi-circular, stone, IN MEMORIAM, bench. Set a spell and look out on Whalebone Cove.
In spring, see the bright yellow flag iris in bloom. Summer brings families of swans, herons, osprey, and egrets, to mention a few. Fall is when the wild rice is plentiful. The redwing blackbirds chatter as they eat their fill. Imagine the Native Americans harvesting the grain into the bottom of their canoes. Winter ice can transform the tidal cove into a winter wonderland.
Continue to the right side and find a tall hedge of boxwood. Hiding behind are several large stones flat on the ground, three of which have beautiful castings. With your back to the one with the three masted sailing vessel, walk to the flat stones between the two tall pine trees. Be careful of the huge poison ivy vine growing on the right tree. You’ll see a lighter colored stone with more square, darker ones to it’s left. Look under the second one, and find the Cove Cemetery Letterbox nestled in a bed of pine needles.
We hope you’ve enjoyed your walk through history, and have admired the pretty cove. Happy Boxing!!
Sunshine, Swamp Yankee, and The Toad Dog