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Parking is on Highland Road accross the street from the Tiverton Town Hall.
It's more like a multi only each stage can be logged as a find.
Benjamin Franklin (January 17, 1706 – April 17, 1790) born and raised in Boston Massachusetts was one of the most respected Founding Fathers of the United States. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author and printer, satirist, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. As a scientist, he was a major figure in the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity. He invented the lightning rod, bifocals, the Franklin stove, a carriage odometer, swim fins at age 11, and was the first to propose a practice later adopted as daylight savings time. He formed both the first public lending library in America and the first fire department in Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania Assembly unanimously chose Franklin as their delegate to the second Continental Congress. In June 1776, he was appointed as a member of the committee of five that drafted the Declaration of Independence.
My Great Great Great Great Grandfather, Ethan Gage became Ben Franklin’s apprentice in 1782 when Ben was serving in Paris as the U.S. Ambassador to France. The aging Franklin hardly needed an apprentice at the age of 78, but he took on young Ethan as a favor to Ethan’s father, who was a fellow Freemason. Franklin took a liking to the young man. Ethan later remarked that Ben saw him as kindred spirit of sorts. Although Ethan was Ben’s apprentice for only three years, Franklin wrote him into his will. Some think he did it to spite his son William, who remained loyal to crown and left for England and never returned. When word reached Ethan of Ben’s passing and his mention in the will, he was stunned. He was working as a fur trapper on the American frontier and in Canada, where he had quite a reputation as a sharpshooter and gambler. While he made a modest living he longed to return to Paris, the city where he served for Franklin. As luck would have it the small fortune he inherited from Franklin allowed him to return to France. Most people believed he gambled all his inheritance away in Paris, but I know better.
Ethan had written in his journal of a vast amount of wealth including gold and Colonial currency from 1775, that he hid in the forests of Rhode Island before leaving for France in 1798. The journal mentions vague landmarks followed by an odd series of numbers. All of the Gage descendants have tried to find the treasure and failed, none of them could figure out the meaning of the unusual numbers until now. I had long abandoned the search myself years ago and having no children of my own, planned to will the journal to the State. Then last year my wife got me a GPS navigation unit and as I was getting acquainted with the system I came across a very familiar series of numbers.
That, my friend is where you come in. I’m an old man incapable of traipsing about through forests in search of treasure. If you do the leg work for me I’ll gladly share the fortune with you. It won’t be easy mind you, but if you follow the clues I know you’ll find it. Good luck!
For this cache please leave only your name in the log, unless you have some treasure themed swag. Please help yourself to a portion of the treasure except for the Colonial Currency so the next finder can have the same experience.
Thank you
Please scramble the solution when returning the cache to it's hiding spot.
A trail map for Fort Barton Woods can be found here
Take the red trail in then take a left onto the blue trail to find John Adams. Continue on the blue trail until it meets the red trail again, turn left onto the red trail and continue on until you come to the blue trail on your left near a large boulder. The trail is easy to miss so keep an eye out. Take this blue trail to find George Washington. Continue down the blue trail until it intersects with the red trail. Take a left onto the red trail and continue on to find Thomas Jefferson. Continue down the red trail again to find Ben Franklin’s Treasure.
