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MOYOCK - Shingle Landing Multi-Cache

Hidden : 1/5/2018
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:


The cache is not at the posted coordinates.

At the posted coordinates there is a NC Civil War Trails information sign.

 

MOYOCK

 Moyock comes from an Algonquin Indian name. 

It means “place of the oak on the trail”.

It appears on a map as early as 1735.

 

SHINGLE LANDING

Was named for the shingles made for Dismal Swamp cypress.

 

 

Currituck Sound and the surrounding area were under Union

control by 1863. Local farmers and merchants sought permission

from Federal authorities to sell their produce in Norfolk.

 

A This community near Shingle Landing Creek was a gateway to Norfolk.

    The name became official in 18A7 when the post office was established.

 

B  Elizabeth Curtis Wallace, Norfolk Co., VA

Saturday 13 [August 1864] Diary E

Fair and breezy.

 Edgar Murray came in this evening form Carolina

And reported that the Ynakees were fired into last evening,

Or yesterday and _B_ of them killed, in

Consequence of which the Yankees had burnt

All the houses at Shingle Landing where

It took place.

 

 

The cache is located at

N 36 31.A74      W 076 10.65B

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Zntargvp. Abegujrfg raq.

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)