GCMTM5 Japanese Garden (Traditional Cache) in Connecticut, United States created by SaxTeacher

This cache has been archived.

Pofe: Greetings from Geocaching.com

I have been looking at caches in the area that have been temporarily disabled for a while now and it looks like your cache has been under the weather for some time. While I feel that Geocaching.com should hold the location for you and block other cachers from entering the area around this cache for a reasonable amount of time I don’t think we can do so any longer. Therefore, I have archived this cache. If you haven’t done so already, please pick up any remaining cache bits as soon as possible.

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GCMTM5 ▼

A cache by SaxTeacher Message this owner

Hidden : 2/21/2005

Difficulty:

Terrain:

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

This quiet suburb has a small Japanese garden...constructed about ten years ago, it's open to the public, though not linked to any town park. I thought it would be a pretty spot to visit for anyone in the neighborhood.

Micro cache - log only - bring your own pen!

Park half a block west on Fairfield Avenue, or one block east in the Civic Center parking lot on Tomac Road.

Guess what used to be here before this condo complex was built in the late '80s? A vacuum cleaner factory! That's right, this big piece of real estate immediately adjacent to the railroad tracks was home to the Electrolux Company's factory from 1931 until the mid-1980s.

In 1989, a dozen identical victorian houses were built on the site of the factory's parking lot (across the street from the garden). They now might as well be made of gold: (visit link)

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

fvzvyne gb Mhyh 2 uvqvat cynpr. Guvax yvxr n fdhveery

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)