Historical Site Mystery Cache
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This location is one of the Historical Sites around Jacksonville
from the old Arkansas Ordnance Plant. When I was here to place the
cache, three people actually stopped to see if I needed help. The
deputy sheriff drove on by. I never realized how busy this road
is.
The listed coordinates are not the actual cache location. You need
to answer a few questions to find the cache. Cache location is:
North 34 degrees 53.ABC West 092 degrees
08.DEF A = On June 4, 194___, the
War Department notified Governor Homer Adkins and Congressman David
D. Terry that a $33,000,000 fuse and detonator plant was approved
for immediate construction near Jacksonville. B
= By July 1____, 1941, approximately 400 families had
received orders to move from the plant construction area.
C = During World War II, Arkansas was
home to ______ ordnance plants. D = In
August 194____, 12,686 employees were working at the plant, and
about seventy-five percent of these were female.
E = The plant was the first national
defense industry approved for the state, and at the peak of
production on November 2 ___, 1942, 14,092 workers were employed at
the plant. F = The Sunny Side housing
project, consisting of a total of 375 houses and additional
duplexes, was started on July 5, 1942. The project supplied housing
for 500 families. A ____00-unit trailer park was built on the
opposite side of town from the project, and both developments were
rented to the AOP employees as they were completed.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
uggc://jjj.raplpybcrqvnbsnexnafnf.arg/raplpybcrqvn/ragel-qrgnvy.nfck?ragelVQ=373
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