Old Mobile Multi-Cache
babama: Glad DaddyMike found this one today. This is the last of 3 caches I am archiving today. This was the very fist cache I placed and hate to see it go, but I am no longer able to maintain these caches since I moved.
Thanks to all who enjoyed looking for this cache.
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Coordinates will bring you to a maker placed by the National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century.
Use the south side of the sign to determine the missing coordinates
A= The number of letters of the first word on the second line.
B= The number of letters on the sixth line minus 1.
C= The number of times the letter "E" shows up in line four.
Cache is an ammo can located at N 30 57.444 W088 01.ABC
Old Mobile Site was the first permanent French colonial settlement and the earliest European town on the Gulf Coast of the United States. Also known by the name of the settlement's fort, Fort Louis de la Louisiane, it was the first colonial capital of French Louisiana.
In January 1702, after occupying Forts Maurepas (1699) and de la Boulaye (1700), a permanent settlement was established on the Mobile River. The town of Mobile and its fort served as the capital of French Louisiana until mid-1711, when the settlement was relocated to the present site of Mobile, Alabama. During this period, under the leadership of Governor Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville's brother, Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, the French consolidated control over the north-central Gulf Coast and gained influence among the Native Americans inhabiting the interior Southeast. Old Mobile served as the economic and political center of the colony. From here, traders routinely traveled to the neighboring Mobilian, Apalachee, Tomeh, Chato, Tawasa, Chickasaw, and Choctaw villages. Delegations from the more distant tribes attended annual conferences and gift distributions at the fort. Canadian voyageurs trading with the Mississippi Valley tribes returned here intermittently to sell Native American slaves, furs, skins, and foodstuffs and to purchase European-made trade goods.
The colonial settlement area, as identified through historical and archeological studies, contained a wooden fort, a church, and an administrative center. As depicted on maps dating to 1702 and 1705, houses in the town were widely dispersed on large lots set within a formal street grid. Fort Louis was situated along the Mobile River, midway through the town. At its peak, Old Mobile contained between 80 and 100 structures, most of which were homes for the approximately 350 inhabitants.
Please hide this cache better than you found it, to keep it from being discovered by muggles.
Additional Hints
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