MMS.39 - Frying Pan Island Lighthouse Mystery Cache

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Goldfinch: This series has been a lot of fun for me and many others. But now it is time for this Geo-Art to be retired. The area is nor open for something new. Looking forward to seeing what someone will use this area for in the furture. Thanks goes out to everyone that found the caches.
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Hidden : 4/17/2015
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

"MMS"
Michigan Map Series

The above coordinates are FALSE.

This cache is part of a series of caches. Please read about the series in GC5DBXQ - "Geo-Art Michigan". All information and updates to this series will be listed in the above cache.

To find the TRUE coords. determine if the statement is TRUE or FALSE.

Frying Pan Island Lighthouse
Only a “plain, small, wrought-iron unlined tower” was erected, without even a storage shed let alone a keeper’s dwelling. The circular tower, made of quarter-inch steel plates riveted together, stood eighteen feet tall and tapered from a diameter of eight feet, four inches at its base to four feet, six inches at the lantern room. The tower stood atop a five-foot masonry foundation, capped by concrete, and a spiral cast-iron staircase led up to the lantern room floor from which the circular gallery could be accessed for cleaning the windows. The perforated steel-plate of the gallery floor was supported by cast-iron brackets and to it was secured a thirty-inch-high handrail made of one-and-a-quarter-inch pipe. The Frying Pan Island Light was first used on October 1, 1882. Later a eight-by-twelve-by-eight-foot oil shed was built on Frying Pan Island in July 1884 and fitted with shelves and a cleaning table. In case Keeper Bernard had to spend the night on the island, and bunk was built at one end of the shed. A new oil house, ten by twelve feet in plan, was built in 1890, which allowed the keeper to live more comfortably on the island. A new light, known as Frying Pan Island Dock, was established atop a coal elevator, 700 feet south of the iron tower in 1935, and two years later, Frying Pan Island Lighthouse was discontinued. On August 8, 1988, the Coast Guard removed the long abandoned Frying Pan Island Lighthouse from the island and took it back to their base in Sault Ste. Marie, where it was restored and fitted with new windows before being placed on display outside their headquarters.
True : N 44° 42.417 W 85° 18.091

False: N 44° 41.925 W 85° 17.855

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Ynetr Ubyr

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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