Stryker's Railroad Heritage Multi-Cache
Hidden : 9/9/2014
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:




The village of Stryker was surveyed on September 19, 1853 beside the proposed Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana Railroad (now the Norfolk Southern) by John H. Sargent, Epaphras L. Barber and Jesse McCart. The village was officially recorded in Bryan on January 15th, 1854 with a legal description for 97 lots. The original streets were named Defiance, South, Church and Depot. The village was named for John Stryker, a lawyer and politician from the state of New York. In 1847, he gave up law and politics to concentrate on railroad enterprises. Railroads were very important in the 1850′s because roads were very unreliable, oftentimes little more than trails, and mud and snow often made them impassable. Men who knew of a proposed railroad route often would purchase land at 10-mile intervals and surveyed lots where it was expected to go. Since nearby Bryan was already on the proposed route, Stryker & Edgerton were surveyed out at about 10-mile distances each direction from Bryan.

To find this cache, use information from the historical markers and the depot to answer these questions:

N 41 3A.BCD W 84 2W.XYZ

A. (---A) The last digit of the year the depot was constructed
B. (-B) The last number of the total years the Toledo & Indiana Railway operated in Stryker.
C. (---C) The last digit of the year the Toledo & Indiana Railway operated..
D. (-/D/----) The day the depot was placed on the National Register of Historic Places
W. (W--) First number of depot address.
X. Number of doors on the depot facing the tracks
Y. (---Y) Last digit of year of the Ohio Historical Society sign
Z. (---z) Last digit of year of the Williams County Historical Society sign

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