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KEYSTONE STATE - 75 Mystery Cache

Hidden : 3/27/2014
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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The above coordinates are...FALSE....DO NOT SEEK THE CACHE THERE.


To find the TRUE coordinates, read this page and answer the question below.


Like all cache hunts in State Gamelands, all rules and regulations should be followed.....This includes wearing blaze orange on the head and body during the prime November-December deer  hunting season and the spring & fall turkey seasons.....BYOP


     One of the most important iron producers in colonial Pennsylvania, Cornwall Furnace,  (a charcoal iron furnace) operated under the ownership of the Grubb and Coleman families from 1742 until the furnace's closure in 1883.
     The charcoal iron industry flourished in Pennsylvania mostly because the Commonwealth had an abundance of four critical resources– iron ore, limestone for flux, water for power, and forests that provided wood for fuel.
     During the 1730s Grubb acquired thousands of acres of land, including the iron ore deposits of Cornwall Banks. On this land in 1742, Grubb constructed his first iron furnace, which he named after Cornwall, his father's home county in England.
     When Grubb died in 1754, the furnace and ore banks went to his sons Curttis and Peter, Jr.  On August 25, 1776, less than two months after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Cornwall Furnace cast its first cannon; by January 1777 the furnace had cast two dozen cannons for Continental forces. During the Revolutionary War, Cornwall Furnace was an important manufacturer of cannon, shot, and salt pans (used to produce salt) for the patriot cause.
     Today, the Cornwall Iron Furnace is an historic site and museum. It survives as the most fully intact and best preserved example of a nineteenth century American charcoal iron furnace.


DURING THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR, CORNWALL FURNACE WAS AN IMPORTANT MANUFACTURER OF WHAT ???????


           CANNON..SHOT..AND SALT PANS = N 40 46.609  W 078 55.543


           WAGONS..BARRELS..RIFLE BARRELS = N 40 47.675  W 078 55.222

 

CONGRATULATIONS TO schmuck&puttz FOR THE FTF

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