147 and Going Strong Multi-Cache
Barbara Svoboda: After three years of fun, we are going to prepare a new hide for your 'cacheing pleasure. Visit us again during the Farmington Dew Days!
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Two-stage cache with puzzles to solve at each stage. Starts with a tour of historic downtown Farmington, and ends at a popular city site.
Farmington loves its libraries.
From the first library in 1869 to today, the citizens of Farmington have hungered for good books. While the road to a permanent library was a bumpy one over the years, the people of Farmington refused to give up. Though it is now a branch of the Dakota County Library system, Farmington can still boast that its library was the first established in the county.
There have been many changes to the Farmington libraries in their 147 year history. As the city grew and changed, so did its library. Many of the buildings that housed the libraries over the years are now gone. This geocache is as much an acknowledgement of our growth and history as it is an introduction to the changes that are a part of the library’s movement into our future.
Follow the posted coordinates to the first site. Once there, solve the following puzzle to get the second set of coordinates.
PUZZLE # 1
In 1907, a permanent Farmington library was established on the top floor of City Hall, which was directly in front of where you now stand. In the years that followed, the library moved to different buildings on the streets around you. Visit each of the following corners and collect the required numbers.
NW corner of 4th & Oak – the year from the building’s cornerstone ____ ____ ____ ____
A B C D
SW corner of 4th & Oak – the number of massive, black anchors outside the building ____
E
NE corner of 3rd & Oak – year the historic landmark was built ____ ____ ____ ____
F G H I
Plug the numbers into the following equations to get the coordinates to the next puzzle site. Be sure to carefully observe the Summer Business Hours. [Site closes at 2pm on Saturday and is not open Sundays]
N 44 ________ ____ . ____ ________ ________
(E + A) D E (C – F) (G – E)
W 093 ________ ____ . ____ ________ ________
(E-A-F) G H (I – E) (E + F)
Additional Hints
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