GC1RNVK Crystal Lake Woods (Traditional Cache) in New Jersey, United States created by NsaneNtellect

This cache has been archived.

OReviewer: As there's been no response to my earlier note, I am forced to archive this listing.

If you wish to repair/replace the cache sometime in the future, just contact me email, including the GC Code, and assuming it meets the guidelines, we'll be happy to unarchive it.

Thanks,
-OReviewer

GC1RNVK ▼

A cache by NsaneNtellect Message this owner

Hidden : 5/22/2009

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Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

accuracy: 17 ft.
Mind the muggles who pass through here to and from school

James R. Stoy (1796-1842) was operating a saw mill just west of what is now Crystal Lake Avenue on the north bank of the creek as early as 1813. (In 1815, James was renting the landing space and store from Hinchman where James's father Philip rented the wharf.) The sawmill at Crystal Lake manufactured wooden truck shelving for farmers' market wagons, and lumber for homes, wheelwrights, outbuildings and fences. The father and son Stoy enterprise allowed for a complete chain of harvesting lumber, milling it at the Crystal Lake Mill transporting it to the rented landing and wharf (known for many years as Stoy's Landing) on Cooper's Creek at which point it could be shipped via the Cooper River out to Camden/Philadelphia. The was the chief commercial center of the region during much of the early to mid 19th century. In 1828, James purchased 150 acres of the land known as the "Crystal Lake Plantation." This tract includes the land that surrounded the mill pond (Crystal Lake), on both sides of what is now Crystal Lake Avenue. Two lanes originated from the Stoy House. One lane led to the sawmill. The other (which was approximately where Stoy Avenue is today) led to the Haddonfield Road (today's Haddon Avenue). After his death James Stoy's land was split among his three children: John, Elizabeth and Aaron. Elizabeth and Aaron both received 42 acres. Elizabeth and Aaron's plots would later become the area developed as Haddon Hills Apartments and the surrounding vicinity down to the land abutting Saddlertown.

The above information was taken from http://www.haddontwphistoricalsociety.org/hths--photos--buildings--stoy.htm

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

vg'f nyy jngre haqre gur oevqtr

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)