Carrboro: Origin Traditional Cache

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Maingray: Gawn

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Hidden : 3/4/2008
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

Micro cache celebrating Carrboro's origins. Park within yards, but check out the history here.

Daniel Wallace, author of Big Fish and Carrboro resident, has recently completed "Getting to Know Carrboro: A Step-by-Step Guide", find it here. This cache is one of an irregular series of caches celebrating this list and this town. This cache celebrates Carrboro's History. Number 6 on his list.

History. It's impossible to understand Carrboro without understanding its history--which is true of everything, everywhere, and of everybody--but it's especially true of Carrboro. Because imagine this: it was never even meant to be a town at all. All it was in the beginning was a railroad depot. In 1882, the town to the east--that would be Chapel Hill--determined that it needed a train station to accommodate folks traveling there. They picked a deserted area a mile away from campus--a mile away so no one on the Hill would be disturbed by the unseemly sound of a train passing through.

Check out the renovated trains close to this cache, and their new use.

Current caches in this series:

Carrboro: Old Carrboro Cemetery (GC10F37)

Carrboro ODS: Paris of the Piedmont (GC10F2K) at the Farmers Market

A Life Devoid of Worth (GC10J00) celebrating the top class eateries in Carrboro.


Carrboro is pretty famous amongst the Google Earth crowd for such a small town having super hi-res imaging, as ordered up by the town council. Check out that detail! :)


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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Zntargvp ovfba.

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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