Petroleum Centre Cemetry Multi-cache
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The above cords are parking cords for Petroleum Centre Cemetry.. Do
not block gates to access road. You will have to walk up a slight
hill to Cemetery, and solve an easy two part puzzle cache. you are
looking for clues for final 3 numbers in North cords, and final 3
numbers in West cords,ergo need N 41 31.ABC and W 79 40.DEF These
will you the cords to Final Cache.Should be an easy find.
Walk up the hill to thr newest graves stones in cemetery,near the
top.. Tombstone of George Davis :(N41 31.308 W079 40.844)Take the
first rhree numbers in the year George died,and add 82 to get ABC
in the N finals. Then go to the tallest tombstone in cemetery,
Edward Brophy:(N41 31.284 ,W079 40.824).Take the last three numbers
in the year Edward died and subtract 34 to get DEF in the W
finals.Then Go find the cache !!
A little about Petroleum Centre, PA. 1864-1873 This oil boomtown
was never organized as a borough or a city,and never had any form
of local goverment, nor a police force capable of protecting the
citizens from the depredation of the criminals and riff-raff for
whom such a place was made to order. With everything favorable to
the growth of lawlessness, Petroleum Centre soon became "The
headquarters of a horde of outcasts from society of both sexes".(
The Golden Flood,1941 by Herbert Asbury) It soon earned it's
reputation as "the wickedest town east of the Mississippi" No
citizen owned the landon which his buildings stood.Buildings were
erected as hastily and as cheaply as possible, because all that was
expected of them was that they remained standing for the duration
of the boom.
Additional Hints
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