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Downtown / Main Street USA: Dallas, GA Multi-Cache

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Hidden : 8/15/2011
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

At the heart of Paulding County is the Dallas Historic Town Square, where you will find a historical marker, bronze plaques and engraved marble providing historical information on the City of Dallas and Paulding County.

Use this historical information to answer the questions below and solve the coordinates for the cache location. Each answer will be a four-digit year; determine the digit sum of each year, down to a single digit.

Example:
Digit sum of 1776: 1+7+7+6=21;
Digit sum of 21: 2+1=3;
The digit sum down to a single digit of the year 1776 is 3.


The final cache coordinates are:
N 33° 5A.BCD   W 084° 5E.FGH

Find the year that:

A: Paulding County was created

B: The courthouse was renovated

C: The City of Dallas was chartered by the Georgia General Assembly

D: The Historic Town Square was rebuilt

E: The Paulding County courthouse was erected (solution -2)

F: The restoration and addition to the courthouse began

G: The restoration and addition to the courthouse completed

H: Dallas became the Paulding County seat

Checksum:
The digit sum of ABCD is 24.
The digit sum of EFGH is 15.
Check your solution

Note: On October 14, 2013, the missing cache container was replaced and relocated. Cache placed with permission of local business owner.


This cache is part of the "Downtown / Main Street USA" series. Please visit the cache that started it all - Downtown / Main Street USA: Edison, NJ. Here you will find the latest count of caches in the series and find out how you can add your own.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

N znexre O pbhegubhfr P syntcbyr Q syntcbyr R pbhegubhfr S pbhegubhfr T pbhegubhfr U znexre Qernz hcba n fgne

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)