Last Alarm - Belleville Traditional Cache

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PYC: This one made it 7.5 years and garnered 10 Fav Points. This log will serve as a placeholder for the Fav points, so feel free to reclaim your Fav point and pass it on to a worthy active cache. Container and log sheet have been retrieved.

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Hidden : 9/19/2015
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size: other (other)

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Welcome to Belleville!

In 1879, the Belleville Fire Company was created. After two fires wiped out most of Main Street (1881 and 1882), Belleville purchased a Silsby Steam Fire Engine (like the one pictured below). A summoning bell was also purchased, for $149.50, to call firefighters when needed. It was tuned to the key of C and could be heard for 4 miles. We think that it sits outside the current Belleville fire department.

The Belleville Firefighters Memorial Park is located about 45 feet north of the cache.



Belleville factoid: The first newspaper in the area was the Palouse Gazette. The first issue was published on September 29, 1877. The early papers were often divided up into one third advertisements; one third world, national, and state news; one sixth stories, poetry, jokes, and cartoons; and the other sixth was county and local news. - from a book by Edith E. Erickson

Notes: You will need to bring your own writing implement to sign the log. (If you are working on the Belleville Photo Tour mystery cache - GC65WA0, then don't forget to look around at each of the Belleville cache locations for a possible matching photo object.)

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Abj jvagre sevraqyl.

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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