The Ultimate Levittown Multi-Cache
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Welcome to the Ultimate Levittown Multi-cache!
This 42 stage multi will take you on a journey through each and every section of the town William Levitt built.
The listed coordinates will take you to stage 1, where you will find the coordinates for stage 2, where you will find the coordinates for stage 3, etc.
The first 41 stages are all small containers (i.e., camo'd 35mm film canisters, etc.) and the final is a medium sized ammo box.
For the most part, the terrain is relatively easy, although there are some thorny woody areas. Around the site of the final, you may encounter a number of furry feral friends and their 'Kitty Condos'. Please be kind and try not to disturb them. Many of the hides are camo'd and are very well hidden. In a couple of stages, we were unable to find suitable hide sites within the particular 'sections' and had to resort to the area surrounding the section.
As always, please take care to carefully rehide each stage.
Also, in no instance will you need to venture onto private property so please do not cut through anybody's yard to get to the caches.
Inside the cache, you find a number of goodies, including some simple tools and gadgets, 3 TBs (2 existing and 1 brand new). There is also the Mothership of FTF prizes, which is relevant to the LedKiss name... good luck!
A little background on Levittown is listed below (thanks Wikipedia!). For those of you unfamiliar with Levittown, this could be a little help in your journey. It will also help if you know your ABC's (LOL).
Levittown, Pennsylvania is a census-designated place (CDP) and suburban community located in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, within the Philadelphia metropolitan area. As of the 2000 census, the Levittown CDP had a total population of 53,966. It is 40 feet (12 meters) above sea level. Though not a municipality, it is commonly reckoned as the largest suburb of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania.
Levittown, Pennsylvania, is a suburban community, planned and built by Levitt & Sons. The majority of the land on which it is built was purchased in 1951. Houses built in Levittown consisted of just six models, including the Levittowner, the Rancher, the Jubilee, the Pennsylvanian, the Colonial and the Country Clubber. Levitt & Sons constructed only single-family dwellings in the community, each surrounded by a lawn, with only modest exterior variations, modern in style, with built-in appliances and landscaping. The homes were moderately priced and required only a low down payment. Construction of Levittown began in February 1952, soon after completion of Levittown, New York, located on Long Island. Levittown, Pennsylvania, was the second "Levittown" built by William J. Levitt, who is often credited as the creator of the modern American suburb.
What set Levittown apart from other developments at the time was that it was built as a complete community. Levitt & Sons designed neighborhoods with traffic-calming curvilinear roads, in which there were no four-way intersections. Each neighborhood had within its boundaries a site donated by Levitt & Sons for a public elementary school. Locations for churches and other public facilities were set aside on main thoroughfares such as the Levittown Parkway, likewise donated by the builder to religious groups and other organizations. Other amenities included pools, parks, "greenbelts," baseball fields and playgrounds, and a shopping center located in Tullytown Borough that was considered large and modern at the time of its construction (and in fact was the largest east of the Mississippi). Residents (who are sometimes called Levittowners) were first expected to comply with a lengthy list of rules and regulations regarding the upkeep of their homes and use of their property; these proved unenforceable over time. In the years since Levitt & Sons ended construction, three- and four-story "garden apartments" and a number of non-Levitt owner-occupied houses have been built in Levittown.
Initially Levitt & Sons would not sell homes to African Americans. However, pressure on Levitt led to a change in the company's policy. Levittown's first black couple, Bill and Daisy Myers, bought a home in the Dogwood Hollow section in 1957. Their move to Levittown was not entirely peaceful, and required intervention by state authorities. The community's otherwise placid exterior was again disturbed during days of so-called "middle-class" gas riots in 1979 in the wake of the Camp David Peace Accords that resulted in a second embargo by Arab oil-producing nations. The unrest occurred as lines swelled and tempers flared in the heart of Levittown at an intersection known as Five Points, a location surrounded by six service stations.
A baseball team from Levittown, Pennsylvania, won the Little League World Series in 1960. Levittown American beat an opponent from Fort Worth, Texas to win the honor.
The Levittown Shopping Center (known officially as but rarely called the "Levittown Shop-a-Rama"), located in Tullytown Borough, began a slow decline in the mid-1970s from which it never recovered with the building of the Oxford Valley Mall. The mall, located just north of Levittown, in Langhorne, Pennsylvania, in Middletown Township, drew shoppers away from the older Levittown facility, given Oxford Valley's much larger size, and enclosed shopping environment. In 2002, the redeveloped site of the Shop-a-rama was reopened as the Levittown Town Center. The completed facility will contain 468,675 square feet (43,541 square meters) of retail space.
Public pools, built by Levitt & Sons and operated by the Levittown Public Recreation Association (LPRA), were closed in 2002 with the exception of one located in the Pinewood section. LPRA Headquarters (and other landmarks) of this prototypical post-war suburb of sometimes mythic importance have been the focus of historic preservation efforts. Since 2002, studies have been underway to establish the Levittown Historic District.
Levittown's 41 neighborhoods (locally called "sections") are found in parts of four separate municipalities: Bristol Township, Pennsylvania (including the sections of Plumbridge, Mill Creek, Indian Creek, Goldenridge, Blue Ridge, Whitewood, Orangewood, Yellowood, Violetwood, Red Cedar Hill, Apple Tree Hollow, Holly Hill, Crabtree Hollow, Oaktree Hollow, Greenbrook, Farmbrook, Dogwood Hollow, Junewood, Magnolia Hill, and most of Kenwood and Stonybrook, and a small part of Birch Valley), Falls Township, Pennsylvania (including the sections of Vermilion Hills, Thornridge, Elderberry Pond, North Park, Willow Wood, and portions of Pinewood, Lakeside and most of Birch Valley), Middletown Township, Pennsylvania (including the sections of Deep Dale East, Deep Dale West, Highland Park, Twin Oaks, Forsythia Gate, Snowball Gate, Red Rose Gate, Upper Orchard, Lower Orchard, Juniper Hill, Cobalt Ridge and Quincy Hollow), and the Borough of Tullytown, Pennsylvania (including portions of Stonybrook, Kenwood, Pinewood and Lakeside).
The names of the streets within each section uniformly begin with the same letter that begins the name of the section in question, a plan that offers a good clue as to where any particular street might be located. "X" and "Z" are not used for section or street names. As there are more than 24 section names, "road" is used for street names in sections to the west of Edgely Road, "lanes" are found in those section to the east. Red Rose Gate, Forsythia Gate, and Snowball Gate are collectively known as "The Gates." (These were the only sections without sidewalks so as to lend a more "executive" appearance to the neighborhoods.) Lakeside sits next to Lake Levittown. Magnolia Hill is on a prominent hill. Mill Creek is found next to a creek by the same name.
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