Courting Around 15 - Cumberland County Mystery Cache
Courting Around 15 - Cumberland County
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Continuing the series of courthouse caches initiated by Ridgerunner02.
Around 1800, an early settler named Samuel Lambeth opened a store at the junction of the Great Stage Road and the Kentucky Stock Road, and the small community that developed around it became known as Lambeth's Crossroads. The store was located at the modern intersection of Main Street and Stanley Street, just south of the courthouse. By the time a post office was established in the 1830s, the community had taken the name of "Crossville." In the early 1850s, James Scott, a merchant from nearby Sparta, purchased the Lambeth store and renamed it Scott's Tavern. When Cumberland County was formed in 1856, Crossville, being nearest the center of the county, was chosen as county seat. Scott donated the initial 40 acres for the erection of a courthouse and town square.
Crossville and Cumberland County suffered rampant pillaging throughout the Civil War as the well-developed roads made the area accessible to both Union and Confederate forces and bands of renegade guerillas. The county was staunchly divided throughout the conflict, sending an even number of troops to both sides.
During the Great Depression, the federal government's Subsistence Homestead Division initiated a housing project south of Crossville known as the Cumberland Homesteads. The project's purpose was to provide small farms for several hundred impoverished families. The project's recreational area would later become the nucleus for Cumberland Mountain State Park.
The original "old" Cumberland County Courthouse was built in 1886 of Crab Orchard Stone. The interior was destroyed by fire and the "new" Courthouse was built in 1905, also from stone quarried in Crab Orchard, TN. The old courthouse was restored and currently houses a Military Memorial Museum. It is directly across the street from the new Courthouse.
Until recently, a free-speech zone on the Cumberland County courthouse lawn was the site of several unofficial displays, including a statue of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, an Iraq and Afghanistan Soldier's Memorial, a miniature Statue of Liberty, chainsaw carvings of a nativity scene, Jesus carrying the cross, and monkeys and bears. As of April 30, 2008 the lawn is no longer a free-speech zone due largely to the controversy caused by the Flying Spaghetti Monster statue.
Notable Natives
Mandy Barnett - Country music singer and actress born in Crossville.
Julie Ann Emery - Actress born and raised here.
Michael Sims - Acclaimed nonfiction writer.
BobbyTaylor - Songwriter born in Crossville. Co- Wrote "Hillbilly Shoes"recorded by Montgomery Gentry. Michael Turner - comic book artist, born in Crossville. President of the entertainment company Aspen MLT.
Marjorie Weaver - Actress of the 1930s and 1940s.
Joe Wyatt - Guitarist born in Crossville. Toured with Country Artist Eric Heatherly From 2004-2007.
Ho and Bo - World Class Geocachers.
THE CACHE:
The listed coordinates will take you to a mural painted in
2008 by artist Katie Yamasaki. A story from the Crossville Chronicle about the mural painting can be found here
http://www.crossville-chronicle.com/gladesun/local_story_206091125.html?keyword=topstory
The Mural depicts scenes from Cumberland County and includes a depiction of the Cumberland County Courthouse which is located just south of the Mural location. The cache is not located at this location and to solve the puzzle which will give you the coordinates to the cache you will need to visit the mural and and find a year which forms part of the mural.
The Year = ABCD
Add 0.DCC to the published North Coordinate.
Add 0.AAD, 0.AAA, 0.CAA to the published West Coordinate.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
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