When I was in High School, I took an English class that focused on Women in History. I thought it was a good time to have some caches related to powerful and or influential women. Feel free to continue this theme and build caches related to Women in History. Use WIH and name of historical figure in title.
The cache is not at the posted coordinates. You need to solve the puzzle. All information needed to solve the puzzle is on this page. This cache is to focus on Women In History (WIH) that lead the way for us all. Information pulled from WIKI
Mary Fields (c. 1832–1914), also known as Stagecoach Mary and Black Mary, was the first African-American female star route mail carrier in the United States. She was not an employee of the United States Post Office; the Post Office Department did not hire or employ mail carriers for star routes but rather awarded star route contracts to persons who proposed the lowest qualified bids, and who in accordance with the Department’s application process posted bonds and sureties to substantiate their ability to finance the route. Once a contract was obtained, the contractor could then drive the route themselves, sublet the route, or hire an experienced driver. Some individuals obtained multiple star route contracts and conducted the operations as a business.
Fields obtained the star route contract for the delivery of U.S. mail from Cascade, Montana, to Saint Peter's Mission in 1885. She drove the route for two four-year contracts: from 1895 to 1899 and from 1899 to 1903.
Author Miantae Metcalf McConnell provided documentation discovered during her research about Mary Fields to the United States Postal Service Archives Historian in 2006. This enabled USPS to establish Mary Fields' contribution as the first African American female star route mail carrier in the United States.
Postal service
When she was about 60 years old, Fields was hired as a mail carrier because she was the fastest applicant to hitch a team of six horses. This made her the first African American woman to work for the U.S. Postal Service.
She drove the route with horses and a mule named Moses. She never missed a day, and her reliability earned her the nickname "Stagecoach". If the snow was too deep for her horses, Fields delivered the mail on snowshoes, carrying the sacks on her shoulders.
Later life
She was a respected public figure in Cascade, and the town closed its schools to celebrate her birthday each year. When Montana passed a law forbidding women to enter saloons, the mayor of Cascade granted her an exemption. In 1903, at age 71, Fields retired from star route mail carrier service. She continued to babysit many Cascade children and owned and operated a laundry service from her home.
Death
Fields died in 1914 at Columbus Hospital in Great Falls, but she was buried outside Cascade.
All information needed to solve this puzzle is on the cache page:
N 43° 02.ABC W 071° 03.DE
What year did Stagecoach Mary end mail carrier service 190A
Mary’s first contract ran from 1895 to 1C9B
D=How old was Mary when she received her first contract with the postal service
9=60 or 8=61
E=The Year Fields died in E14