Mead Garden - William Bartram Trail Mystery Cache
Mead Garden - William Bartram Trail
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One in a series of caches placed in Mead Garden, open from dawn 'til dusk.
William Bartram was America’s first native born naturalist/artist and the first author in the modern genre of writers who portrayed nature through personal experience as well as scientific observation. Bartram’s momentous southern journey took him from the foothills of the Appalachian mountains to Florida, through the southeastern interior all the way to the Mississippi River. His work thus provides descriptions of the natural, relatively pristine eighteenth-century environment of eight modern states: North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Tennessee. William Bartram published an account of his adventure in 1791. It quickly became an American classic and Bartram's Travels has been described by one scholar as the most astounding verbal artifact of the early republic.
The posted coordinates will lead you to a sign. Use the description on the sign to solve the puzzle below, which will give you the coordinates to find the cache itself.
28 3A.8B5
81 21.A13
A= last digit of the year that William Bartram was near here.
B= number of "p"'s on sign
Extra credit: What nickname did the Indians give to William Bartram? (don't post this in your log, please, just email me the answer)
Trees may trick your coordinates, but it's large enough to find. Room for trade items and travel bugs.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
va gur jbbqf, haqre gur ynetrfg tebhcvat bs gerrf.
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