CTM: Escape of Fort Congaree Multi-Cache

Hours of Operation:

The Tillerman Trail is open to visitors from 6am until 9pm

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Historical Information:

More than two hundred fifty years later, little remains but the rusty cannonball on display at the Cayce Historical Museum. Few people know that a palisaded British fort once stood on a vacant lot in a residential neighborhood just across the Congaree River from Columbia, South Carolina. In the tall grass and bamboo, surrounded by 1950s-era homes in a residential neighborhood in the Riverland Hills neighborhood of Cayce is the site of an almost forgotten frontier outpost: “The Congaree Fort,” “Fort Congaree II.”

Cache Information:

Oh wow! There I was, just walking the normal patrol route, and out of nowhere I see a whole mess of Union troops! What am I going to do!? I have to let the camp know, but what if the Union Troops see me? I know, I'll leave a trail and instructions, then the next soldier to come along will find them and can get the word back to camp!

Better get started, this spot will have to work, I'll start here. I'll grab my compass, and take a direction, then count how far I go. From this spot I will start by heading in a bearing of 330 degrees on my compass.
I've been walking a while, this looks like a good place to change directions, I counted 1,350 feet from where I started to here. Now I will take a new compass heading, and start going at a bearing of 65 degrees.
Oh no! I've only made it 565 feet, and I've been spotted! I better stop here and leave the location of where I'm headed! Luckily I have this small tube with me to hide it in. I better encipher it, in case it's found by the wrong troops! I'll use the most common cipher used by prisoners.
Alright, now that that's in place, I better high tail it outta here. Once my tube is found, they should be able to find the information I've left behind! Hope this works!

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