This cache is not at the listed coordinates!
This cache has been approved by Lori Hartsock and Amy Raub. A big THANK YOU goes out to them. Permit 08-BHWA-3
This cache is located in the Black Hammock Wilderness Area
You must solve the following puzzle to find the actual cache location. The puzzle makes the cache difficulty a 2 (for now) while the cache itself is pretty easy.
N 28 (J-K) (E+I). G (A+E) E W081 (B-L)(A+J). K L H
A little Florida History
Written records about life in Florida began with the arrival of the Spanish explorer and adventurer Juan Ponce de León in ABCD. Sometime between April 2 and April 8, Ponce de León waded ashore on the northeast coast of Florida, possibly near present-day St. Augustine. He called the area la Florida, in honor of Pascua florida ("feast of the flowers"), Spain’s Eastertime celebration. Other Europeans may have reached Florida earlier, but no firm evidence of such achievement has been found.
Britain gained control of Florida in EFGH in exchange for Havana, Cuba, which the British had captured from Spain during the Seven Years’ War (1756–63). Spain evacuated Florida after the exchange, leaving the province virtually empty. At that time, St. Augustine was still a garrison community with fewer than five hundred houses, and Pensacola also was a small military town.
Florida became the twenty-seventh state in the United States on March 3, IJKL. William D. Moseley was elected the new state’s first governor, and David Levy Yulee, one of Florida’s leading proponents for statehood, became a U.S. Senator. By 1850 the population had grown to 87,445, including about 39,000 African American slaves and 1,000 free blacks.