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Hummel Angel LbNA #22766 (ARCHIVED)

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:Jun 4, 2006
Location:
City:Staten Island
County:Richmond
State:New York
Boxes:1
Planted by:Bandaid
Found by: The Kite
Last found:May 19, 2007
Status:FFF
Last edited:Jun 4, 2006
Hummel Angel

The Moravian Cemetery at 2205 Richmond Road on Staten Island, NY is the largest cemetery on the island. It opened in 1740 in what was a purely farming community. The 113 acre cemetery originally was made available as a free cemetery for the public in order to discourage families from using farm burial plots. The Moravian Cemetery is the burial place for a number famous Staten Islanders, including members of the Vanderbilt family.
In the 19th century Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt gave the Moravian Church 8½ acres and later his son William Henry Vanderbilt gifted a further 4 acres and constructed the residence for the cemetery superintendent. The Vanderbilt mausoleum, designed by Richard Morris Hunt and constructed in 1885-1886, is part of the family's private section within the cemetery. Their mausoleum is a replica of a Romanesque church in Arles, France. The landscaped grounds around the Vanderbilt mausoleum were designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. A few of the personalities interred here are:
Notable burials
• Alice Austen (1866-1952), photographer
• Paul Castellano (1915-1985), mobster
• Eberhard Faber (1822-1879), founder of the Eberhard Faber Pencil Co.
• George Frederick Norton (1876-1917), stockbroker, died in WW I with the American Field Service
• John Louis O'Sullivan (1813-1895), lawyer, journalist, statesman
• Martin Scorsese (born 1942), filmmaker, (future burial site)
• Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794-1877)
• Cornelius Vanderbilt II (1843-1899)
• Cornelius Vanderbilt IV (1898-1974)
• George Washington Vanderbilt II (1862-1914)
• William Henry Vanderbilt (1821-1885)
• Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt (1880-1925)
• William Kissam Vanderbilt (1849-1920)
• William Kissam Vanderbilt II (1878-1944)
• And many others that we hold close in out hearts.

Ok…. Now the clues:
Find the intersection of Eberman and Meinert Lanes. Traveling in approximately a southwesterly direction on Meinert, count to the third tree on the East Side. Look for Gladys and Cecil. (They are facing the direction you are traveling).
Because Hummel figurines were so special to Gladys, this little angel is perched on this monument – on her side hidden behind some evergreen branches.
As of the date of placement (June 4, 2005) I have not been able to find any other documented letterboxes on Staten Island. Send me an e-mail if I am incorrect.