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Dead Center Multi-Cache

Hidden : 12/24/2007
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

Start at N42 32.096 W84 47.691
Short walk, quick easy find even as a multi. Medium sized container able to hold log book and small trade items and travel bugs.

This Cache is in a local Cemetery, and a part of a series to highlight Eaton County Cemeteries thereby highlighting those who helped found and build this great county of ours.

STAGE ONE:
Read Historical Marker located at N42 32.096 W84 47.691
Read about the name of the church and cemetery, and about the Luren Dudley Dickinson who taught Sunday school here while he was a Michigan Governor.

Other Interesting facts about this governor:
1) He was elected as Lieutenant Governor 7 times under 5 different governors
2) holds the record of the oldest person to ever serve as Michigan Governor, one month before his 80th birthday.
3) was the only governor to enter office upon the death of an incumbent
4) served as Governor for only twenty one and a half months
4) buried at the Maple Hill Cemetery

STAGE TWO (FINAL):
To Find:
Latitude: Add 9 + the price paid for the land to the origional coords (9+$+96= N coords)
Longitude: Add 4 + the last 2 digits of year dedicated to the origional coords (4+YY+691 = W coords)
The final is an un-camoed lock & lock container.

This cache was originally placed on Christmas Eve 2007 as a gift to the Geocaching Community.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

haqre gur gerr

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)