GREER HERITAGE *ARCHIVED 4-3-2020* Traditional Cache

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The Scout Master: I went by this one today while on a health visit to my ailing mother. Unfortunately, this one was indeed missing once again. I have decided to discontinue it. Thanks to all who visited over the past 9 years.

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Hidden : 4/10/2011
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:

This cache is located at the edge of a parking lot behind a facility that is a local landmark and was the inspiration for this cache. You are searching for a small ointment jar hidden from casual view.
NOTE: In Summer POISON IVY has been reported here.
The cache has been placed with the OK of Mr. Duncan of The Greer Heritage Museum.

This parking lot is 1 of 2 where visitors can park. To get there from here, you have to go to the other end of the parking lot from the cache location and take the walk located there around to the front.


(photo by Brian Scott, HMdb.org)
The GREER HERITAGE MUSEUM. ↑ (located at N 34 56.289, W 082 13.680)


 
photos by The Scout Master


While doing the cache you might want to take the time to walk around front and see the Cherokee STONE MORTAR ℯ (circa 1500-1800) on display on the lawn outside the entrance.
 
Stone Mortar(carabiner for scale)-photo by The Scout Master                    photo by Brian Scott, HMdb.org)

From the 'discoverSouthCarolina.com' site, 'Arts & Culture' by Amy Holtcamp,South Carolina Insider, 3-29-2011:
 "The Greer Heritage Museum has always been a great place to learn about the history of the Greer area, but now the building that houses the museum is an official “Historic Place.”

After a three-year application process, The National Park Service recently added the structure at 106 S. Main St. to the National Register of Historic Places. Before it was a museum, the building was the Greer post office.

Built in 1935 as a WPA project, the museum still retains many of the post office’s original details, including its terrazzo floor, civil service bulletin boards and a lobby mural titled “Cotton and Peach Growing” by WPA Federal Art Project painter Winfield R. Walkley. When you visit, ask one of the museum staff to point out another interesting detail from the building’s post office past: the observation point from which the postmaster could peer into the work room and make sure that the postal workers weren’t loafing on the job.

In addition to its architecture, the museum offers interesting artifacts from Greer’s past. There is a coffin-shaped wicker basket once used by Wood Mortuary to transport corpses, a collection of ladies’ hats from the 1930s to present, an old optometrist’s cabinet from Kirkwood’s Optometry, and a (huge) dollhouse replica of Hammet House in Taylors. On a mantel in the Greer Heritage Museum you will find a multi-generational collection of family photographs."
The museum is only open Fridays and Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. Ther is no admission fee.
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I hope you enjoy your visit to Greer! There are many fine caches in the area to search for.

HAPPY CACHING!!!

FTF HONORS GO TO...OXCACHER!!!

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Ebpx orarngu Nmnyrnf ng Onfr bs Ovt Bnx [(street side)]

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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