Camden County is the
southernmost county on the Georgia coast. Created by the Georgia
Constitution of February 5, 1777,it is the state's eighth original
county. Camden County combined the colonial parishes of St. Thomas
and St. Mary with lands ceded by the Creek Indians. In 1854 the
state legislature incorporated land from Camden County to create
Charlton County. Camden County is named for Charles Pratt, earl of
Camden (1714-94), chief justice and lord chancellor of England who
supported the American colonies before the Revolution
(1775-83).
The town of St.
Patrick, on the south side of Great Satilla River, was selected as
the first county seat in 1787. In 1792 the seat was moved to St.
Marys, and in 1800 to Jefferson (later called Jeffersonton), which
was at or near the site of St. Patrick. In 1802 a courthouse and
jail were built in Jeffersonton. Until the Civil War (1861-65) the
community thrived, owing to a large number of plantations along the
river cultivating rice, cotton, corn, and other products. With the
collapse of the plantation economy after the war, Jeffersonton
declined and was mostly abandoned.Today it is considered a dead
town, although several families still own homes in the area. In
1872 the county seat returned to St. Marys, where it remained until
1923, when it was moved to its current location in Woodbine.
From 1898 until 1902 the county was home to a community of
Shakers, who settled on a plantation in White Oak. In the
1890s Camden County's economy was bolstered by timber and
turpentine products. These evolved to larger commercial pulp-paper
manufacturing operations from the 1940s to the present. By the late
1980s Camden was the state's second leading pulpwood producer, with
72 percent of its lands developed as commercial
forest.
The county's economy was also bolstered in 1881 when steel magnate
Thomas Carnegie began purchasing large parts of Cumberland Island
to create his Dungeness estate on the south end of the island.
Carnegie and his heirs eventually purchased 90 percent of the
island and employed more than 300 people in the construction and
management of their estates. The Dungeness mansion burned in 1959,
but its ruins were stabilized after the island came under the
supervision of the National Park Service as the Cumberland Island
National Seashore in 1972. In 1975 ferry service began, and
commercial development was halted by 1982, after the park service
acquired more land.
The creation of the Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base has had the
largest impact on the growth of Camden County. Construction on the
naval base began in 1978, and it was operational a year later. In
1980 the location was selected as the East Coast refit facility and
training command for the navy's fleet of Trident ballistic missile
submarines. The first Trident submarine arrived in 1989, and by
2003 Kings Bay employed nearly 9,000 people.The growing population
in the county after the opening of Kings Bay resulted in the
establishment of the Camden Residence Center, a satellite campus of
the College of Coastal Georgia.
Source: newgeorgiaencyclopedia.org
On to the cache!!
Stage 1: The posted coordinates will take you
to a marker. This marker indicated that "history tells of the
_ _ _ _ _ ." Convert these letters to numbers where A=1, B=2,
C=3 etc. Call the third letter/number of this word "X".
The person's name on the marker who this area is
dedicated to is _______ ________. Call the # of
letters in this person's first name "Y", and their last name "Z",
respectively. Use the numbers that are associtated with X, Y,
and Z to calculate the Stage 2 cordinates below.
stage 2 is at N 31 0X. 1(Y-2)3 W
081 4(Z-5).Z35
When you get to this stage there will be an obvious
sign. Use the numbers on the sign. Do NOT use the
decimals, leave them out and only use the digits. (ex. 4.3
is taken as 43)
____ mi ____km ______elevation.
To calculate the final: N 31 02. (401 - mi) W 081
(11 + km). (776 + elevation)
Stage 3 (the final) is a large ammo box hidden in an
obvious geo-location. Should not be that difficult.
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.
Camden
(GC2F63A)
Glynn
(GC2F5ZV)
McIntosh
(GC2F62H)
Liberty
(GC2F62W)
Bryan
(GC2F62Y)
Chatham
(GC2F632)
The
Final (GC2F61C)