Memorials LbNA #16387

LAST FOUND/CHECKED: 10/1/05 TERRAIN/LENGTH: Easy, 10-15 minutes excluding stamping. Please contact us with updates at songbird_eagleeye@yahoo.com--we'd love to hear from you! NOTE: Store-bought stamps. DIRECTIONS: From Rt. 135 in Ashland, turn onto Chestnut Street by the Dairy Queen (Shell gas station on the opposite corner and Ashland Technology Centre across the street). After 1/10 mile, take a left between tall cement columns into Wildwood Cemetary. CLUES: Pass the Veterans' Memorial on the right. If you have time, stop and sit on the park bench, enjoying the lovely garden. This spot is very pretty at night when the flag is spotlighted (although I don't recommend searching for cemetary boxes at night!). Continue driving up the hill to the right all the way to the top of the hill. Park by the Schneider Way sign. Stand by the sign and look to the right toward the trees. The end of the new fence should be at 165 degrees, which puts a clump of 3 small trees at 200 degrees. Behind these trees, beneath sticks and leaves, you will find the Veterans' Memorial letterbox. (THIS ONE IS REPORTED MISSING.) Take a left onto Schneider Way and follow it all the way to the end. Take another left (pass the Maple Ave sign on your left) and continue on this road which circles the edge of the cemetary. After the road curves to the left, watch the stones on your right, finding the last one "Egan." You will be near an Ash Ave sign. The second box is about 100 paces into the woods on the right, up the hill just to the left of the Egan grave marker. The ground will fall away to either side, with a field on the right and woods on the left. Follow this natural path, stepping over 2 fallen trees. At the third, a large log, turn to the right and find the Fireman's Memorial letterbox behind the base of the fallen tree, hidden by bark and sticks. Continue down the road you were on, to the right, circling back to where you started. Be sure to take a look at the Ashland Fire Department Memorial on your left just before you leave the cemetary.