This is Vermont: Rochester Traditional Cache

This cache has been archived.

cwgray: The location for the hide is no longer viable. I now live 3 hours away and can no longer maintain it. Perhaps someone else can use the area for a new hide.

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Hidden : 2/8/2009
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

This cache is part of the Vermont 251 Plus 4 Geocaching Club, an attempt to bring caches to each and every town, city and gore in the state of Vermont!



It is generally thought that the name derives from Rochester in
Massachusetts, because many Vermonters had come from that area. The
Massachusetts town was named by Governor Samuel Shute for his
friend Laurence Hyde, the first Earl of Rochester, who was a
brother-in-law of King James II and a son of the Earl of Clarendon.
During the troubled years after the restoration of the English
monarchy in 1660, the Earl of Rochester held many positions of
trust and was considered to have been a statesman of great
eminence. The Earl took his title from the old Roman town of
Rochester in Kent. The Romans called a camp or fortified place
castra, which became the English "Chester," as in Rochester,
Manchester, etc.

Strangers are always interested to find the names of Michigan and
Texas connected with localities in Rochester. John C. Huden felt
certain they were Indian names, Texas meaning "friend or ally," and
Michigan, meaning "a big lake." However, since both names came into
use in the I9th Century, it is possible that they originated in
joking references to the distant states with those names,
suggesting that the areas so named in Rochester were remote from
settled villages in town.

Equally fascinating are the areas known as Jerusalem and
Breakneck. According to local folklore, the first name was given
because the people in Jerusalem were so pious. The landscape at
Breakneck was so steep that a young lady and her lively horse once
fell over a precipice and both suffered broken necks.

When the ill-starred town of Philadelphia was divided up among its
neighbors, Rochester and Goshen got Philadelphia Peak, a
3,168-foot-high giant that sits astride their mutual boundary. The
name of the mountain is the only thing left as a reminder that
Vermont once had a town named to honor the birthplace of the US
Constitution.



Windsor Country
Chartered: July 30, 1781 (Vermont charter)
Area: 36,560 Acres = 57.13 Square Miles
Altitude: 878 feet ASL
Population (US Census, 2000) 1,171

About the cache: Cache is a micro in an obvious and winter-friendly hiding spot. You may park in the town hall parking, but please be stealthy during their business hours so you don’t attract attention..

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Gbb rnfl.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
-------------------------
N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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