That Old Stone Bridge- Midlothian Mine Series Mystery Cache
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That Old Stone Bridge- Midlothian Mine Series
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Chesterfield is the home of many of America's firsts. First hospital, first iron mine, first lead mine, first industrial coal mines, first tramway, and even father's day was created in Chesterfield.
It was also the state of Virginia's first packed road, 1st VA railroad.
You don't need to drive to the locations to figure out the coordinates. Just use google maps and search, all the answers are there.
So where you standing, physically or virtually, is the start. This home was built in a certain year by the Woolridge Brothers who started the Mid-Lothian coal mines. Today it is a popular seafood restaurant. You may need to look up the history of the building to find the year.
The 2nd digit is A, the 4th digit is B.
From here go east on Midlothian and take a left on Old Buckingham.
You will cross over the start of a creek called Falling Creek. Falling Creek was home of the first Iron Ore Furnace in the new America. What is the atomic number of iron? The second digit is now C.
In 1621, Falling Creek was home of the 1st lead mines in America. Don't put your high school science book away yet, subtract the 1st digit of its group in the periodic table from it's second digit, that number is now D.
In 1811 The first commercial tramway built in America, the predecessor of the railroads, was operated from the Brown, Page and Burr gunpowder plant on Falling Creek to its storage magazine a few miles away.
Ok,weary traveler, lets keep going up the road, I hear there is a tavern ahead. What year did the Tavern's proprietor witness the surrender of Yorktown? Add the last two digits, that number is now E. Enjoy the taverns own homebrew because there are no real commercial breweries in Richmond during the era.
Now on to the cache. N37 D0.0CB W77 DA.E00 Where you stand now was an old stone bridge for America's 2nd ever railroad. Coal cars were hauled from the Railey/Heth coal pits just west of here down to Manchester by the James River. This, and a stone covert west of here, is all that is left of something so historic. Sad, but I am glad you geocachers can view it and enjoy what is left of something so historical.
You don't need to go in water to find it,please place it back the way you found it.
The cache is now about 20 feet North of the bridge under a large stone (go figure) camo's with bark, limbs etc. Please hide it back they way you found it.
Congrats to Heels&Wheels for their FTF!
Additional Hints
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