GA Coastal County Series - Bryan Multi-Cache

  Bryan County, on the Georgia coast just south and west of Savannah, was created from Chatham County by an act of the state legislature on December 19, 1793. In 1794 land from Effingham County was also transferred to Bryan. The county was named in honor of Jonathan Bryan, one of the leading colonial settlers in Georgia and a key figure in the colony's movement toward independence and during the Revolutionary War (1775-83).

In 1733 FortArgyle was built on the Ogeechee River, on land that later became part of Bryan County, by Georgia founder James Oglethorpe. In 1754 the town of Georgetown was laid out on the lower Ogeechee by John Reynolds, the first royal governor of Georgia, but the anticipated deep-water port never came to fruition, because attention was focused on more established commercial markets at Savannah and Sunbury. Georgetown was renamed Hardwicke by Governor Reynolds in 1755.
Bryan County was the scene of large-scale agricultural development during the antebellum period. The Ogeechee River basin in lower Bryan County became one of the most productive rice-growing areas on the south Atlantic coast during the 1830s and 1840s. By 1855, 3 million pounds of rice annually were being shipped from Bryan County plantations. The leading producers of this important staple commodity on the Ogeechee were Richard J. Arnold, George W. McAllister, and Thomas Savage Clay.
The rice industry was enhanced by two important transportation developments affecting Bryan County—the construction of the sixteen-mile-long Savannah-Ogeechee Canal in 1830, which provided the area's rice plantations with a direct market link to Savannah, and the building of the Savannah,Albany, and Gulf Railroad two decades later. The railroad was completed through the lower end of Bryan County in 1856, leading to the founding of Ways Station, later RIchmond Hille near the Ogeechee River crossing.
In 1861, after the start of the Civil War (1861-65), Confederate forces built Fort McAllister at Genesis Point on the Ogeechee to protect from Union forces the local river plantations and the railroad just upstream. This simple earthworks fort repelled seven Union naval attacks by Monitor-class warships during 1862 and 1863. The fort and its outnumbered Confederate garrison finally fell during a bloody landward assault in December 1864, at the end of General William T. Sherman's march to the sea from Atlanta to Savannah.
With the development of railroads and a rapidly expanding naval stores (primarily turpentine) industry in the last two decades of the nineteenth century, town development in the upper section of Bryan County began in earnest. Pembroke was founded as a railroad town and turpentine-shipping center in 1890 and within a decade became the county's leading business center. In 1937 the Bryan County seat was moved to Pembroke from the earlier county seat at Clyde, in the middle section of the county. Even earlier seats were Cross Roads and Court House (later Eden).
Automotive pioneer Henry Ford had a greater impact on Bryan County than anyone else in the twentieth century. In 1925 Ford began the purchase of what eventually would total 85,000 acres of land along the Ogeechee River in lower Bryan County. During the 1930s and 1940s he established schools, industries, and medical facilities in the Ways Station area, thus greatly improving social and health conditions in an impoverished section of coastal Georgia. In 1941 the town of Ways Station was renamed Richmond Hill in honor of Ford, whose winter home, Richmond, was located on the former Ogeechee River rice tract of a century before.
With the establishment of the Fort Stewart Military Reservation in 1940, Bryan County lost more than one-third of its acreage to the U.S. government and was split into two sections, upper and lower. The county seat, Pembroke, is in the upper portion of the county, while Richmond Hill, the county's largest city, is in the coastal south.

Source: newgeorgiaencyclopedia.org

 This cache will require a medium length hike, about 1-2 miles depending on the route you take, but it is any easy walk and a good deal of the path is paved.  It is also easily accessible by bike (which is my prefered method) if you are into the biking thing.  Either way it should be pretty easy, and would be good for the family.  This cache is a little different than the others in the series as it requires a waypoint projection.  If you are not familiar please read up before you go out to hunt the cache, groundspeak has a topic on it here.

At the posted coordinates you will find a sign.  There is a phrase on the sign in quotation marks, with four words in it.  "The ____  ___  ____"  Use this phrase to calculate the projection bearing and distance to the cache.

•  Take the number of letters in the third word and call that X.   Use the first letter of the second word and convert the letters to numbers where A=1, B=2, C=3 etc  and call this number Y.  . 

• I have checked this a couple of different ways and this should get you very close to the cache.  You are looking for a small ammo can hidden behind a tree.  Should not be that hard to find.  
  

Please be aware of muggle and don't compromise the location of the cache.  In the front of the log book is a number, write it down, you will need it for the final cache.  Check out the other caches in the series.