Manistee County - Letters From Home Letterbox Hybrid

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Hidden : 5/16/2015
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
3.5 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

Parking for the caches in the Letters From Home series can be found at N43 02.850 W85 48.512 (Marne), N43 07.578 W85 52.886 (Conklin), and N43 11.031 W85 56.816 (Ravenna).


Cache is not located at the coordinates listed above. See below for further details


LETTERS FROM HOME MANISTEE COUNTY




Manistee County is a county located in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the population was 24,733. The county seat is Manistee.


The name "Manistee" is from an Ojibwe word first applied to the principal river of the county. The derivation is not certain, but it may be from ministigweyaa, "river with islands at its mouth". The county was set off in 1840 and organized in 1855.

There are thirteen recognized Michigan historical markers in the county:

  • Harriet Quimby / Childhood Home
  • John J. Makinen Bottle House
  • First Congregational Church, Manistee
  • Great Fire of 1871
  • Holy Trinity Episcopal Church
  • Holy Trinity Episcopal Church Rectory
  • Kaleva, Michigan
  • Manistee City Library
  • Manistee Fire Hall
  • Our Saviour's Lutheran Church
  • Ramsdell Theatre
  • Trinity Lutheran Church [Arcadia]
  • William Douglas House


To find the geocache, you must follow these instructions:
1. Read through the description of Manistee County.
2. Let A = the last digit in the year of the Great Fire. Let B = the last digit in the year the county was set off. Let C = number of historical markers minus thirteen. Let D = the last digit in the population per the last census. Let E = the number of letters in the last name for whom the Bottle House is named after minus one.
3. Travel at a bearing of 20.7 degrees for ABCDE feet.
4. You will find what you are looking for in a group of seven. 


In each geocache container you will find a stamp. Use this stamp to complete your Map of MI (related webpage above)


Remember to bring your own ink pad. No ink pads will be placed in any of the geocache containers in this series.


For more on Manistee County visit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manistee_County,_Michigan


For those that might not have tools to project waypoints geolifeline.com may be of some use to you.

There are 83 caches in this series. That is a lot to maintain so feel free to help by bringing along a spare bag and maybe a towel to dry out anything that gets moisture in it. Please keep the containers hidden from muggles. Thanks for playing.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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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)


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