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This cache is not located where Dutchy currently resides, but is located where Dutchy was lynched, buried face down and later exhumed.
This is a mystery/puzzle cache with a short offset location because of muggles (Rated 3 for muggles), but beware because they are everywhere, you'll just have more privacy at the offset location.
Back in 1896, the ladies of the Confederate Memorial Association in Elberton commissioned a memorial to Elbert County's fallen Confederate soldiers. The monument was to be placed on the town square.
Sculptor Arthur Beter was given the job of honoring Elbert County's dead soldiers. Many of the men who fought beside those who died still lived in the county.
Beter designed a 22-foot-high monument. The base was 15-feet high and included a Confederate flag etched on one side. Atop the monument was a seven-foot-tall likeness of a soldier.
Crowds of veterans and other interested county residents packed the downtown square on foot and in carriages on July 15, 1898, for the unveiling of the statue.
An elaborate ceremony climaxed with a cloth cover being pulled to reveal the monument.
The spectators didn't see what they expected.
Instead of a soldier wearing the traditional Confederate garb and flop hat, the soldier at the center of the square wore a Union-ish tunic and long overcoat. He also wore a kepi hat, also more common among federal soldiers.
The soldier was also carved as a short, squatty fellow with a somewhat oversized head.
It's reported that someone said the statue looked like a cross between a hippopotamus and a Pennsylvania Dutchman. Thus, the statue was named Dutchy. Beter, the sculptor, reportedly left town not long after the unveiling.
Dutchy stood on the square for a little over two years. Then, on a hot August night in 1900, an apparent mob got sick of the statue and pulled him down backwards from his pedestal. His legs broke from his body and from his base.
The folks then buried him face down, a sign of disgrace in military circles behind the pedestal on the town square.
A second statue was erected a few years later atop Dutchy's old pedestal. This one looked more suiting, with a flop hat and no Union-ish clothes.
Dutchy remained buried for 82 years, when the Elberton Granite Association decided to dig him up and put him in its relatively new museum.
Some of the older residents of town gave the EGA a rough idea of where to dig.
Parts of the downtown square were dug up and prospectors used long metal rods to probe the ground for anything hard. After discovering some water and gas lines, the crew finally hit granite. They dug for four or five feet and discovered Dutchy.
Once again, Dutchy drew a crowd to the Elberton square. The EGA waited for school to get out on April 19, 1982, before they hoisted Dutchy out of the ground.
Dutchy's exhumation drew media coverage from all over. The story was sent out on both the Associated Press and United Press International wires.
EGA Executive Vice President Tom Robinson said the original idea was to reattach Dutchy's legs and pedestal and to stand him up in the museum. The Elbert County Historical Society urged the EGA to leave Dutchy in his original, broken state. The EGA agreed and, after a good cleaning, wheeled him into his place of honor in the granite museum.
Ironically, the ugly Northern rebel statue is given credit for Elberton's granite industry. The granite plant built to create Dutchy back in 1896 was eventually purchased by Peter Bertoni, who kept the plant open and kept making granite monuments. The EGA considers him the father of Elberton's granite finishing business.
You can visit Dutchy at the Granite Museum it's open 2:00 – 5:00 PM, Monday – Saturday and is located off College Avenue at 1 Granite Plaza.
Due to muggles, this cache was replaced with a micro, so you will be looking for a film canister.
To find the actual cache you need a new set of coordinates so you must first find a couple of clues at the first location by answering these questions:
What type of dead soldiers?
You then should total all the letters of the name, with A = 1, B = 2, C = 3, etc. For instance, ABCD equals 10. (1 + 2 + 3 + 4 = 10)
The answer is the last two digits of the new coordinates for North
1861 to When?
You then should total all the digits of that date. For instance, the year 1855 would result in an answer of 19. (1 + 8 + 5 + 5 = 19)
The answer should be added to the last three digits of the original coordinates for West
Enjoy! Be sure to walk around and visit a few stores, there are some really good restaurants within walking distance.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
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