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A cache by angel77ra Message this owner

Hidden : 8/19/2012

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Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

Easy puzzle with an easy cache at the end. This micro is placed in an area where you can do a few things. Maybe volleyball, or golf, or just maybe lunch.Maybe bring a frisbee if you have one.

Before the Manhattan Project and even before the Los Alamos Ranch School, hearty pioneers braved the extreme weather conditions of the Pajarito Plateau and homesteaded the land. More than 30 homesteads were established between the 1880s and 1942, when the federal government took over the plateau for the Manhattan Project. Today, the stories of some of these families are told in a tour, developed by volunteers of the Los Alamos County Fuller Lodge/Historic Districts Advisory Board in conjunction with the Los Alamos County Parks Department and the Los Alamos Historical Society.

Many of the remnants left behind by these homesteads have been destroyed but subtle hints are still scattered in a few places. The sites focus on the homesteads within the Los Alamos residential areas that are easily accessed. You do not necessarily have to visit all these sites to solve this puzzle and only a small micro cache awaits you at the end but this should be easy and a little bit of history can’t hurt.

Cache is NOT at the posted coordinates solve the following puzzle

N35 5A.BCD W106 17.EFG

Site 1. Fuller Lodge near the Romero Cabin

B = The last digit in the year the Bean King sold his holdings to Pond.
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Site 2 – Sullivan Field Parking Lot

C = The third digit in the year B. Quintana received his patent on the land later known as the upper fields by the Los Alamos Ranch School.
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Site 3 – Urban Park

D = The first two digits added together in the amount of acres Francisco Gonzales filed for this heavily forested area in 1914.
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Site 4 – Golf Course Clubhouse

E = The third digit minus (-) the last digit of the year Juan N. Gonzales applied for what then was called Mesa del Medio or Middle Mesa.
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Site 5 – Guaje Pines Cemetary

F = The last digit in the year when all three owners either entered or purchased the 30 acres of land, now known as Guaje Pines. Add all together and minus (-) 2.
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Site 6 – North Mesa Tennis Courts

G = The the last digit in the year M. Lujan filed a patent for the 160 acres of land still known as Horse Mesa. OR the third digit of the year in the photo of the Lujan compound on the marker.
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Site 7 – Deer Trap Trailhead

A = The the first two digits added together in the amount of acres Donaciano Gonzales finally settled for on a spur of what is now Barranca Mesa.
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For more info visit the Los Alamos Historical Society on Bath Tub Row. near Fuller Lodge.