The WPA in American Fork
A
cache
by SirGerald
Hidden:
5/7/2004
Size:
 (Micro)
Difficulty: 
Terrain: 
(1 is easiest, 5 is hardest)
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A brief tour of well-known WPA projects in American Fork.
During the Depression in the 1930's, unemployment was a big problem
in American Fork as it was across the nation. In answer to the
problem, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt created the Works
Progress Administration in 1935. It was renamed the Work Projects
Administration in 1939 when it became part of the Federal Works
Agency.
Its goal was to provide work for people on relief by employing
them on useful projects.
Click Here for more information on the WPA.
This cache will take you to historical markers placed to
commemorate three of those projects that continue to benefit the
citizens of American Fork today. Use information from each of these
markers to build the coordinates of the next.
The cache container is rather small and only contains a log
sheet and a pencil.
| From marker #: |
Find The Following Information: |
This Is Number: |
Write the Value Here: |
| 1 |
How long is the wall (in feet)? |
AAAA |
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| 2 |
What year was Utah's unemployment rate 36%? |
DDDD |
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| 3 |
What year was this project started? |
FFFF |
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| Equations: |
Write Result Here: |
| BBB = AAAA - 986 |
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| CCC = AAAA - 1076 |
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| EEE = (DDDD - AAAA) + 166 |
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| GGG = (FFFF - DDDD) + 5 |
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| What: |
Coordinates: |
Write Actual Coordinates Here: |
| Marker 2 |
N40 23.BBB W111 46.CCC |
N40 23.________ W111 46.________ |
| Marker 3 |
N40 23.EEE W111 46.CCC |
N40 23.________ W111 46.________ |
| Cache |
GGG feet north of Marker 3. |
| Yes, the West coordinate is the same for both the
second and third markers. |
Additional Hints (
Decrypt
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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)
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Lbh arrq gb fdhrrmr gur fvqrf bs gur yvq gb bcra gur pbagnvare.
(Decrypted Hints)
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 July 28 by cougarfan15 (10 found)
Thanks! Great job!
[view this log] | July 28 by nleavitt (17 found)
Great Cache. I never knew about these WPA projects in AF. Thanks for the education. My kids enjoyed it, too.
[view this log] | July 16 by remmiw (181 found)
Great cache! Our first completed Multi. Did this one while doing the American Fork Steel Days Geocache Event. Learned a few things I didn't know about AF, still wish it would have been like Eagle Mountains Event.
[view this log] |  October 22, 2008 by Chasing Blue Sky (1768 found)
Couldn't find the second marker. I'll have to come back and try again later...
[view this log] | September 23, 2008 by r0cketman (0 found)
 Though an excellent walkthrough of the WPA in American Fork, we went a little too late in the evening, and were unable to locate the cache.
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Current time: 11/22/2009 12:02:34 AM
Last Updated: 8/5/2009 10:51:37 PM
Rendered: From Database
Coordinates are in the WGS84 datum
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