Athens County History: Western Library Association Mystery Cache
Athens County History: Western Library Association
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The posted coordinates will take you to an area of historical significance. Using information in the immediate area (and possibly at additional waypoints), you will be able to calculate the coordinates for the cache as follows:
There is a plaque describing the Ames Academy Bell. Let ABCD be the year the bell was mounted in its current display. A plaque celebrating the life of Frank Henry Gifford can be found at the entrance to Gifford Park. Let EFGH be the year he was born. Let IJKL be the year Gifford died.
The cache can be found at N 39 24.HBI W 081 57.DKL
Before leaving this location, be sure to find Ready, Ame, Cache.
About This Location
In the years leading to Ohio statehood in 1803, Ames Township citizens decided to establish a stock-owned circulating library. Since cash was scarce during Ohio's frontier era, some citizens paid for their $2.50 shares by the sale of animal pelts, which were taken to Boston for sale in the spring of 1804 by merchant Samuel Brown. There he acquired fifty-one volumes, primarily books on history, religion, travel, and biography, as the first accessions for the Western Library Association. Senator Thomas Ewing later related that he paid his share with ten raccoon skins, thus suggesting the collection's popular name "the Coonskin Library." Judge Ephraim Cutler was the first of many librarians who kept the library until 1861.
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(Decrypt)
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