Hyde Park Walking Tour Mystery Cache
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This cache was placed for the “Sports For Life “ Program at the elementary school. The program runs for six weeks and the goal is to help youth find life long sporting hobbies. This is the first year the school has offered geocaching.
The small quaint village Of Hyde Park is full of Historical homes and buildings and your mission is to walk through the village acquiring the information need to solve the puzzle. You can begin and end at the school, I only ask that you use extreme stealth , perhaps the best time to search for the cache is after school hours, weekends and school vacations.
The cache is a small sized container and contains small SWAG for trading and the FTF will get a VT Lottery ticket as well as a pair of socks made right in Hyde Park Village .
The listed coordinates are for the school parking lot, your expedition will start and end here.
From the school parking lot you will proceed west down Main Street on the left side of the road.
HYDE PARK HISTORY LESSON
The charter for Hyde Park was signed in 1787 by Jedediah Hyde. On April 17th, 1910 a devastating fire broke out at the jail house. The fire caused by the wood stove, along with a very strong winds soon destroyed most of the business and homes in the center and West end of town.
As you walk down the street you will need to gather the following information:
1.The Hyde Park Elementary School was founded when? __________
2.The Hyde Park Village Market was founded when? ______________
3.“Ol’ Doc French’s” house on the corner has how many large cedar bushes?______
4.The Court House (Shire Town of Lamoille County) has a Veteran’s Memorial-How may Wars are represented?______
5.How many cannons on the Court House lawn?______
6.At the Governor’s House Bed and Breakfast, What # Main Street is it?____________
7.What is the original date (pre-fire) on the cornerstone of the Church?______
At this point, you will cross the road and head back towards the school.
8.The Mcfarlane house (large red house ) has how many arched windows on the red clapboard part of the house?_______
9.Lamoille County Players was founded in what year?_______
10.The Lanpher Memorial Library was built when?____
11.PH Edwards (formerly the American House Hotel) has been family owned since?_____
12.C. H. Dana Building was built in what year?_____
13.What is the house # of the yellow house w/brown trim
across from the store?______
Now it’s back to the school to cipher the puzzle. Good Luck!
The Puzzle
Solve the answers to the following question to get the coordinates of the cache.
N44 AB.CDE
W072 FG.HIJ
A. Subtract the fourth digit from the 3rd digit for answer to #9______
B. The second digit in the answer to #13_________
C. Subtract the answer of #5 from the answer of #4.______
D. add the answers of #5 and #8._______
E. Subtract the first two digits from the last two digits of answer #12._____
F. Subtract the answer of #8 from the answer of #3._____
G. The last digit of the answer to #10._____
H. Add the answers of #3 and #5.______
I. How many zeros in all of the answers?______
J. Total number of digits in the answer to #2.______
Additional Hints
(No hints available.)