MMS.54 - Sand Point 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 : 4/18/2015
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.

Sand Point Lighthouse
L’Anse, French for “The Cove,” is the name French Explorers applied to the small, protected bay in the southwest corner of Keweenaw Bay. Congress provided $10,000 for a lighthouse at L’Anse on March 3, 1873, but it wasn’t until May 1876 that a deed to a parcel on Sand Point, situated on the opposite side of the bay from the Village of L’Anse, was obtained. Work at the site commenced on August 1877, using plans that called for a rectangular, one-and-a-half-story dwelling with an eight-and-a-half-foot-square tower centered in its lakeward-facing gable. The lighthouse was built of red brick, with the wooden stairs in the tower provided access to the lantern room and to both floors of the five-room dwelling. Nearly identical lighthouses were built at Sherwood Point in 1883 and at Little Traverse in 1884. The tower at Sand Point measures thirty-six-and-a-half feet from base to ventilator ball, and its octagonal lantern features a wooden lower part, a cast-iron upper part, and a copper and zinc roof. A wooden door in the lantern room provides access to the gallery, which is encircled by a wooden balustrade. A lamp with a ruby red chimney was used inside a fifth-order Fresnel lens, manufactured by L. Sautter & Co. in France, to produce a fixed red light at a focal plane of thirty-nine feet above the bay.
True : N 44° 42.049 W 85° 20.941

False: N 44° 42.090 W 85° 19.630

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

1. Oenapu 2. 12' Qrnq Gerr

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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