 FSC2009 New Castle2
A cache by FirstStateChallenge Hidden: 3/7/2009
Size:  (Regular) Difficulty:  Terrain: (1 is easiest, 5 is hardest)
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First State Challenge 2009- New Castle2
- hidden by tacklemom
The challenge that you have been
waiting for is here: The First State Challenge for 2009 sponsored
by Delaware Geocachers! There are 17 new caches spread across the
state of Delaware by volunteer cachers to give you an appreciation
for the great areas of the First State. These should all be fairly
easy to find. To complete this challenge and be eligible for prizes
at the challenge event including a Pathtag, you must complete the
following:
1. Print out a copy of the official form found at: Official
Form
2. Go to each cache (Caches
and Hiders), sign the log, and record the code letter and
number combo found in the log book on your official form.
3. You must find ALL 17 caches. Use the 18 letters and numbers that
you recorded from the first 16 caches (note: two caches have two
combos) and solve the puzzle (an easy one) in order to find the
final cache- #17- (somewhere in Cape Henlopen State Park- in
Lewes). The puzzle can easily be solved in the field and if done
last with the other southern caches, can all be completed in one
trip to the area.
4. In the final cache is a self-inking stamp with which you must
stamp your official form.
5. Either scan or take a picture of your final stamped form and
email it to firststate.challenge2009@gmail.com.
If you cannot do either, send an email to this same address and we
will work with you.
6. There will be a Challenge Event (more details later) open to all
cachers. At this event, those that have been verified as completing
the challenge, will be eligible for the following:
A. Door prizes- bring your stamped
Official Form as your entry
B. A completion certificate
C. A Challenge Pathtag (limited)
7.Pathtags are limited to the first
100 cachers who complete the challenge.
8. More information can be found on the Delaware Geocachers Forum
at First State
Challenge 2009
Battery Park Walking Trail
History
New Castle Heritage Trail
Most of the structures in the long two square blocks in the center
of old New Castle are detailed in a brochure available at the
municipal office. Walking is the best way to see the sites. Join
New Castilians as they walk or jog around The Battery Park beside
the Delaware.
Poke along the undulating brick sidewalks of The Strand, pausing to
look at the vestiges of the old store with an early Ivory Soap
billboard painted three stories high on the side of a brick
dwelling along Packet Alley. Cut through a garden walkway beside
the historic Presbyterian Church to the shady Green.
Prominent Delawareans are buried in the graveyard at Immanuel
Episcopal Church, which since 1924 has sponsored the famed A Day in
Old New Castle the third Saturday in May on the Green.
Other sights worth noting are the Old Town Hall and Markethouses
with an unusual open archway connecting Delaware Street and the
Market Place, the 1789 Academy, the 1809 U.S. Arsenal, the original
ticket office for the old New Castle-Frenchtown Railroad, and the
Town Wharf, where little remains to validate the claim that New
Castle was once an important shipping and transportation
center.
Cache
The parking coords are the same for New Castle 1 & 2. This
regular Lock&Lock is about a 0.5 mile walk along a paved trail
next to the Delaware River. At the end, there is a short trip on a
side trail and then on a gravel road. There is an unactivated TB
dog tag for the FTF.
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Additional Hints (Decrypt)
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Find...
Battery Park walk
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Cache find counts are based on the last time the page generated.
 January 23 by Thors Hammer (383 found)
Came here directly from "New Castle1". We tried to find this one late summer, 2009, however, the area was so over grown with among other vines and bramples, poison ivy. Today it was a very easy find. We took a picture key chain, and left a Sponge Bob toy.Thanks for the fun!!!
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November 28, 2009 by SanMar (1138 found)
our second find of the day- found the right trail in. TFTF
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November 14, 2009 by PicklesMcGee (446 found)
Awesome, another find on this horrible day of DNFs. TFTC SL
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October 26, 2009 by stayfloopy (11476 found)
#11042 Came over from New Castle 1. I knew which trail to use so it was an easy walk. Looked around a bit and then figured out where it would definitely have to be. Thanks.
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October 20, 2009 by Rbuck143 (112 found)
Second of I think 5 here in this park. Plenty of clingy seeds if you go the wrong way. TFTH. TNLNSL.
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Last Updated: 1/23/2010 5:19:06 PM (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) (1:19 AM GMT)
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Coordinates are in the WGS84 datum
