Last Farm Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 12/29/2006
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:

Cache is in a small lock-n-lock. Please watch for cars when you cross the streets. Use sidewalks until the entrance of "park." KEEP THE KIDS IN CHECK AS CARS ARE ALL AROUND! Cache contains a $15 gift card to some coffee place

Congratulations to Team Wahoo on FTF


History of Fair Lawn History records that the area we now call Fair Lawn was originally part of a larger area inhabited by the native tribe, Lenni-Lenapi. As Dutch fur traders made their way up the Hackensack and Passaic Rivers to trade with the Hackinghaesaky Indians of the Lenni-Lenape tribe, they established trading posts driving the Lenni-Lenapi further West. After the capture of New Amsterdam in 1664, England acquired title to the area. Land grants were issued, though the settlers who received them were mainly Dutch. The Dutch settlers brought with them their "Flemish Colonial Style" of building, which can still be seen throughout the area. The General of the Bergen Militia was Andrew Hopper, whose family had settled in Fair Lawn in 1711 and had owned large tracts of land in the area. Hopper Avenue was named in honor of his service. Fair Lawn Known as "Small Lots" As the 19th Century progressed, the large farms which had existed were sold and divided into smaller lots. By 1861, there were about 80 homes, most of them farmhouses. Fair Lawn became known as "Small Lots". One of the farmhouses still standing today is the Garret-Hopper-Bogert house built in the early 1800s, and two Terhune houses on Saddle River Road. The site of a house built during this era by Henry Hopper, a Sheriff of Bergen County, is commemorated by a monumemt and garden. This cache is located neat that monument at one of the last farmsteads in Fair Lawn stood on this site. The house built by Henry Hopper in 1855 was razed for road improvements in 1989. He was Sheriff and Freeholder of Bergen County and served in the state legislature. In 1919 William M. Croucher, Sr., bought the farm and with his sons, Percy, Clarence and William worked the land as a truck farm until 1953. Back when New Jersey was the Garden State. Nothing remains now except a few trees and a road marker.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

va gerr ba yrsg frira srrg hc

Decryption Key

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

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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