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Old Luten Arch Bridge Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 2/22/2012
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:

A pill bottle that is near the old Luten Arch Bridge. Two ways to park and get to the bridge, it is a very short distance from parking. There is a neat metal sign on one end of the bridge showing that it was built by the Luten Bridge Co in 1920, nearly 100 years ago.

Congrats to rexmiller on the FTF.

The Luten Bridge Company was a bridge building company based in Knoxville, Tennessee in the early- to mid-20th century. The firm built Luten arch and other types of bridges. A Luten arch is a patented concrete arch design for bridges, designed by Daniel B. Luten, of Indianapolis. Luten was awarded more than 30 patents for his improvements of the Luten arch design.
The Luten arch improves upon preceding concrete arch designs by strategic use of reinforcement where needed to address tension of load upon the bridge. This enables bridges to be considerably lighter. According to Luten, by 1919 he had designed more than 17,000 Luten arch bridges, and there were examples in all but three US states.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Lbh qba'g arrq gb trg jrg gb svaq vg.

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)