Laurel Furnace Traditional Geocache

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Hidden : 5/23/2006
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
3 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

Take US 23 to Rt 1

If more than Harrison Ford makes you tingle when you watch the Indiana Jones series of movies, then this one is for YOU!

“Whenever we visit an iron furnace, it must be remembered that countless individuals lived, worked, and sometimes died at these sites. Iron furnaces ran twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, for many months on end. The roar, fire and heat were continuous, while the furnace cast an eerie glow that could light up the night for a considerable area. Smoke from the charcoal production hung in the air, while the hills and dales surrounding the furnace were stripped bare of trees. Being near a furnace town meant co-existing with a living inferno - a terrible beast, partly tamed, that would produce the desired transformation of ore to iron at a price - one paid in earth and blood. Throughout the eastern seaboard, there are historical structures dotting the woods and hills. These structures are iron furnaces, which were used to convert iron ore to pig iron.
At the turn of the century, the Hanging Rock Iron Region (HRIR) of Southern Ohio and Northern Kentucky produced most of the iron in the United States.”
Source: (visit link)
(You simply MUST visit that website!)

We located the remains of Laurel Furnace on Sunday, May 21, 2006. We stood in awe for quite some time and had to pick our jaws up off the ground …. wouldn’t want to drag ‘em through all those deer droppings ….. in order to trek back to our car.
Laurel Furnace was built in 1849. The bottom half of the stack, 39 ft high, was carved of one block of stone cliff. It gave its last blast in 1874.
Look for the marker and road of the same name. Take time to read it, it will help guide the way.

The coordinates take you within eye shot. Don’t let the foliage fool you, the beast is there, right in front of you. Go ahead, push through those thorns, you won’t be sorry.
You are looking for a 3qt Igloo Thermos wrapped in camo tape.
FTF gets Survival Knife.

(I give many thanks to Trudger for his Ironmaster Cache hidden at Aetna Furnace that has inspired our family, nicknamed by my better half “The Blackbottom Bandits”, to search out the remains of the iron furnaces in and around our area, and to that “seafaring pillager” with whom I share this all-consuming fascination.)

Note: This cache is less than four miles past "Rest In Peace - Lucy Virgin Downs"

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Snpr gur oryyl bs gur ornfg, rkvg fgntr yrsg. Gur sheanpr vfa'g gur bayl guvat jvgu n ovt bcravat.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
-------------------------
N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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