Earth Month-Part 1 Traditional Cache
Hicita: ### Geocache Owner Action Needed ###
It appears this listing is indicating issues needing addressed by the CO. The recent logs may contain more details about what sort of issues are evident.
Please visit the container quickly when any logs indicate there is a problem. If you're unable to visit the geocache promptly, you'll need to disable the listing. I have disabled this listing for you at this time.
What to do next?
- Post pertinent information with the 'Write Note' log type asap.
(If you're encountering unusual circumstances for ongoing issues, post a note every 30 days so the listing doesn't appear abandoned)
- Visit the container and provide maintenance as needed.
- Update the posted coordinates (if necessary) making sure they are accurate.
- Confirm the geocache's trackable inventory.
- After the geocache is up to the standard, then post an Owner Maintenance log.
- Lastly, enable your geocache.
If you don't want to maintain the geocache any longer, you can
- Find someone to take ownership of your geocache. You'll need to adopt the listing to them.
- You can archive the listing. This re opens the area for new geocaches. Don't forget to remove any remnants of your geocache.
If no intervention from the CO is evident within 30 days from today's date, the listing will fall into archival status.
Take Pride with Your Hide 411
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Hicita
Community Volunteer Reviewer - Georgia
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Former Scripto Pencil Factory April is Earth Month. To celebrate, we are placing caches at several formerly environmentally contaminated sites around Atlanta. These abandoned sites, known as brownfields, once contained harmful levels of chemicals. After remediation, these sites have the potential to be reused in a beneficial way.
The M. A. Ferst Company was founded in Atlanta in 1923 and made graphite lead for pencils. In 1924, the company was renamed Scripto, and at one time was the largest employer in Atlanta. In 1931, a factory was built at 423 Houston Street (now John Wesley Dobbs Avenue) to manufacture mechanical pencils. From the 1930s to the 1960s, operations expanded to include plant buildings, offices and research facilities that eventually covered the entire block west of Boulevard. The plant was closed in 1977, and sold to the National Park Service in 1994. The site also was a part of the civil rights movement. In November 1964, the International Chemical Workers Union called a strike against Scripto, upset with proposed pay raises of 4% for skilled workers and 2% for unskilled workers (only six of Scripto's 700 black employees were skilled workers). Martin Luther King, Jr. walked the picket line in December 1964, a day after his return from receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway. The strike was resolved in January 1965. Soil at the site was contaminated with arsenic, petroleum hydrocarbons, chlorinated solvents, cyanide and lead. The site was cleaned up using a combination of excavation and chemical stabilization from 1992 to 1996. The area is now used as a parking lot for the MLK National Historic Site.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
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Treasures
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