1-4-3 Cache Traditional Cache
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Our first cache hide. This is a small cache in a camo medium size pill bottle, with small trade idems and log sheet. Well lit for night caching. Kid friendly. BYOP
1-4-3 stands for "I Love You".
1-4-3 is the beacon signature for Minot Ledge Lighthouse. This lighthouse has a very special meaning to my husband & I.
Minot's Ledge Light is a lighthouse located on Minot's Ledge, one mile offshore of the towns of Cohasset and Scituate, to the south of Boston Harbor, in the US state of Massachusetts. The current lighthouse is the second on the site, the first having been washed away in a storm after only a few months of use.
In the mid-19th Century the design and construction of Lighthouses was the responsibility of the Army Corps of Topographical Engineers which resulted in a rivalry with the longers established Army Corps of Engineers which built fortification and had responsibility, as it does today, for waterway improvements. The Chief Engineer of the Army was Joseph G. Totten who personally took charge of the project to design and construct a permanent lighthouse on Minot's Ledge.
Totten's design was as simple as it was effective. Totten, who had extensive experience building fortifications, had a full appreciation of permanency and strength of granite constructions. He designed the lighthouse so the first 40 feet of lighthouse would be a solid granite base weighing thousands of tons. To secure the lighthouse to the ledge he had several massive iron pins emplaced so that the lighthouse would be literally pinned to the ledge by its own weight. This idea necessitated working on the ledge on the fairly few days when the sea was calm and the ledge was exposed.
Work started on the current lighthouse in 1855, and it was completed and first lit on November 15, 1860 with a final cost of $300,000 (which made it the most expensive light house that was ever constructed in the United States). The lighthouse is built of large and heavy dovetailed granite blocks, which were cut and dressed ashore in Quincy and taken to the ledge by ship. The lighthouse was equipped with a second-order Fresnel lens. The lighthouse was automated in 1947 and converted to solar power in 1983.
The light signal, a 1-4-3 flashing cycle adopted in 1894, is locally referred to as “I LOVE YOU” and is often cited as such by romantic couples within its fifteen mile visible range.
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Gnxr lbhe ybirq bar ba gur frnepu sbe guvf pnpur. Znl lbhe ybir fbyvq nf n ebpx.
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