GC1EN60 Colorado Spirit Quest #45 - Central City Masonic
Type: Traditional | Size: Micro | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: Grand High Pobah @ | Hide Date: 07/27/2008 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N39° 47.935 W105° 31.139 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
             

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!! Exciting New Cache Series!!

“COLORADO SPIRIT QUEST”

The Colorado Spirit Quest is a series of Caches placed by many individuals, near cemeteries and historic sites in hopes of paying respect to the many pioneer ancestors that have ‘walked’ before us.

There are hundreds of cemeteries in the rural and mountain communities across Colorado. This series will introduce you to many of them.

The cache pages will provide a virtual history tour of the cemeteries and tombstones.

COLORADO SPIRIT QUEST is not affiliated with any other ‘Spirit Quest’ group. Special thanks and credit are given to SixDogTeam who started the Indiana Spirit Quest in 2004. The idea has rapidly spread into many states.

The CSQ endeavor is an enormous and relentless task. It cannot be accomplished by just one or two people. This project will only flourish if there is a multitude of volunteer cachers willing to place these caches.

After locating the cache container, take some time to reflect back on the lives of those pioneers and the effort it took to make Colorado such a great state.

If you are interested in joining the “Walking Through History Clan” contact may be made by sending an e-mail to the owner of “Colorado Spirit Quest #1 – Mo untain Passage”. Use the ‘Send Message” link at the center of the page of their profile.

Each person that places a CSQ cache is responsible for its maintenance.

REMEMBER:

If you are APPREHENSIVE about cemeteries – AVOID this series.

Thanks to Clan Members: Greasepot, Taylorgeotracker, Ivy Dog Parents, Team Boogity3, and Grand High Pobah, CDirtO, FulComers, Boborr 80909, Imusttravel2000, Buzz Lightyear I, Sandhill 49er, and MrVolkswagen. New Clan members are always Welcome

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On may way back from the Mountain Luau event I decided to make a detour up to Central City by way of Virginia Canyon to pick up some caches that had appeared since year. When I got to "Wimsey", I looked off over Central City and saw a cemetery behind the Coeur d'Alene mine. After taking a few wrong turns I managed to get myself up there. There was no sign on the gate but I subsequently determined this to be the Masonic Cemetery for Central City.

The cache, a 35mm micro, is placed in such a way that it can be retrieved for either inside or outside the fence. Should you be interested, wander around some and get a feel for life 100 or so years ago.

This cemetery is reputed to have a ghost. I knew that would get your interest! This is the story.

Every April 5 and November 1, it is said that a beautiful woman in a black satin dress appears and lays flowers on the grave of John Edward Cameron. There are many different rumors for the connection between this ghost and Cameron, who died on November 1, 1887. At one time, twelve people gathered at Cameron's grave on November 1 to see the ghost. They were not disappointed -- at sunset, the woman appeared as always, but when two of the men tried to grab her, she flew off and vanished on a hill not far from the cemetery.

See if you can find the grave of John Edward Cameron. Look for a tall monument

The best way to approach this cache is off of Nevadaville Rd. If you arriving on the parkway, there is a sign for a left turn to Nevadaville which is Nevadaville Rd. If you come up from Blackhawk or up Virginia Canyon (the Oh My God road), get to Central City and then head for the parkway. At the edge of town is the Nevadaville right turn.

07/03/2019 By vicatalee
Yay!

06/29/2019 By Pixel Magic
TFTC
Headed up to the mountains today to escape some of the heat in the city. Great day to explore an area that we had not been to before.

Good condition.

06/08/2019 By elrep
Google Maps got confused but we found a different road that got us closer to the cache. TFTC!

05/18/2019 By Anderson0709
Beautiful Peruvian dolls

04/16/2019 By DemonChaser1
Quick find with doofus19x2. He found this one before me. All is well. TFTC!

09/13/2018 By ColoCan
Did another spirit quest, interesting history of the areas

09/13/2018 By packerle
Found

09/11/2018 By J&J Team Yukon
Greetings from Oklahoma. Took a little day trip from where we are staying to do some caching. Container was missing , replaced back where it should be. Love the history in these old cemeteries. TFTH.

06/23/2018 By lasouthpaw
I wanted to get out of Denver, beat the heat and maybe avoid seeing any snakes. What to do, what to do? I hadn't been to Gilpin County yet and a friend had just posted pictures from Central City. Why not! And off I go...

I almost wound up not looking for this one, there were several cars back here and I wasn't quite sure why. Then I saw some people mowing in the cemetery. Realized everything was ok at that point so I snuck up and made the grab. Hope the grounds workers didn't think it was too strange that I just stayed around the entrance and headed out without visiting any graves. Eh, they probably didn't even notice I was there. Thanks for the find - cache #2497.

04/15/2018 By tsumommy
TFTC! Found with VinFiz. Nice day for geocaching ??