One of the Newnan, The City of Homes cache series. This one is named “City of Homes” and is an offset multi cache. Newnan served as a hospital city during the Civil War, so most of its beautiful antebellum homes were spared.
The posted coordinates will take you to one of Newnan's easily recognizable historical landmarks on the court square. A newly-restored marquee atop this landmark continues to proudly proclaim:
Here you will find the information needed to compute the coordinates for the cache location:
Year cornerstone laid + 229 = N33 2X.XXX
Number of letters in architects’ names + 7876 = W084 4X.XXX
This landmark is Newnan’s original Carnegie Library building, constructed through the generosity of Andrew Carnegie and largely through the efforts of a young Newnan resident, Charles L. Thompson. As a boy, Mr. Thompson had fallen from a tree while looking at a bird’s nest, and as a result was confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life. That, however, didn’t stop him from accomplishing his dream of obtaining a suitable library for Newnan. He personally wrote a letter to Mr. Carnegie on December 12, 1901, which resulted in a grant of $10,000 for construction of the library. The library opened in 1904 with almost 5,000 volumes for a local population of 6,500. Unfortunately, Mr. Thompson did not live to see the library completed. He died at the age of 21, about six weeks after writing to Mr. Carnegie, from pneumonia contracted while conducting a door to door survey, in his rolling chair, to determine needed library programs. He and his parents lived on the corner of College and West Washington Streets, and he is buried in Oak Hill Cemetery.
The library closed in 1987, moving to the current Mitch Powell Library on Hospital Road, and the building was later used as annex courtroom space for the Coweta County Courthouse. After completion of a new Coweta County Justice Center and with the efforts of the citizens group “Friends of the Carnegie” and the support of local officials, the building is currently being restored for use as a public library again. Even the long-standing marquee recently received a $15,900 restoration. This building will be the only known Carnegie Library to be reopened as a library, with its original exterior intact, after being closed and used for another purpose. It is also the oldest Carnegie Library in Georgia. Newnan has preserved a jewel in saving the Carnegie Library building which has served so many of its citizens over the years.
* Cache is a small container with room for a mini-log and a few tiny items only. BYOP and please use only one line of the log for your signature.
* Do you remember how to get coins out of a piggy bank without breaking it? Please don't break the cache or detach it from its location!
* Wheelchair accessible except for a low curb in one place.
* Watch out for muggles at the final location!
* Stages are within easy walking distance of each other, about half a mile, or a short drive. Enjoy downtown Newnan on the way.
* Cache is placed with permission of security.
* Thanks to Sprinterman for use of his waymark photo of the Carnegie Library.
* There are other caches in place at two of Newnan-Coweta County libraries.
* Unactivated trackable for FTF.
This is one of the caches in the series "Newnan, The City of Homes" that you will need to find that has partial coordinates on the front page of the log book for finding Newnan, The City of Homes:"Southern Charm".