First in Flight? Multi-Cache
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A quick multi cache from a little known piece of history. Best if accessed from the west.
A local Union County Georgia young man named Micajah Clark Dyer (1822-1891) lived at the foot of Rattlesnake and Cedar Mountains in the Choestoe District of Union County. With an imagination fit for a genius and primitive tools he confined himself to his work shed drawing precise plans and constructing a flying machine. Clark applied for and received U.S. Patent No. 154,654 on September 1, 1874 for his “Apparatus for Navigating the Air. " Eyewitnesses from family, neighbors and friends saw him fly off the side of Rattlesnake Mountain navigating his crude flying machine over their fields. Two news articles were published concerning the flight in 1875, one in the Gainesville Eagle in Georgia and the other in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. This event took place some 30-years before the Wright Brothers' claim to fame. (Dyer flew first and Pluto is not a planet anymore. Makes you wonder what other things we learned in school may not be factual)
The original cache was located at the base of a tree, but the tree swallowed it up...worth peeking at, only 1 ft from the new cache. See new hint.
IMPORTANT NOTE: After arriving to the posted coords, shoot a bearing of 40 Degrees and proceed 8 paces to sign the log.
FTF congrats to Ent Of Spades!
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