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Sylvester School Ruins Traditional Cache

This cache has been archived.

WhiteHall Hounds: After making an appeal to the area geocache group, nobody was interested in adopting this cache. As we no longer live in the area and are unable to maintain this cache, we will archive this location, in the hopes that someone else may place a cache here in the future.

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Hidden : 1/23/2015
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:

Sylvester School Ruins: Should be an easy Park-n-Grab, you are looking for a small container able to hold some SWAG; however, watch out for stinging, biting, and prickling things.


Welcome to Sylvester! ... or what's left of it. Sylvester, at one time, had several stores, hotels, a bank, a gas station, a railroad station, a good number of churches, and a school. The school was closed in 1956 and all the students were transferred up the road to McCaulley (which remained open until 1986). Aside from the residents of Sylvester, the only other buildings that remain active are the Post Office (part-time), the Community Center, and the Baptist Church (which is very well attended, and continues to have 3 services a week).

The coordinates will take you to all that is left of the old school. These ruins are what used to be the auditorium (on the upper level) and home making classrooms (on the lower level). The main school building was across the street, where a barn is now located.

Despite appearances, people do still live here and watch out for each other, so be aware of Muggles, especially on Sundays and Wednesdays during church hours (the Baptist Church is only a block away). The cache should be fairly easy to find, but do watch out for cactus, mesquite trees, rattle snakes, scorpions, wasps nests, and any other hostile plants & animals. This is the Big Country, not the Big City or the beach, so just have a care and wear appropriate clothing (NOT RECOMMENDED: tank tops, shorts, flip-flops).

NOTICE: available for adoption, please contact me if interested

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)