Good news! For 2018, we upgraded our geotrail to an official Geocaching GeoTour! Learn more about Pennsylvania's Clearfield County GeoTour, which offers a series of 5 related geocaching adventures: Forgotten Clearfield, Hometown Heroes, Waterways, Cemeteries, and Parks and Recreation. Codes are hidden within each cache. Collect 25 codes from across all 5 series and you qualify for a collectible prize. If you complete all 5 and have your passport validated, you can receive a trackable geocoin.
This cache is with the 2015 Forgotten Clearfield County Geoctrail. Use your CCGT passport to collect 25 codesfound within each cache to redeem for your 2015 CCGT geocoin. In addition, if you have completed all five (5) yearsof the CCGT and you have your passport validated, a special trackable geocoin will be available in June.
Visit www.visitclearfieldcounty.org/outdoors/geotrail for more information about the Clearfield County Geotrail, passports, geocoins and previous geotrails that are still open.
Clearfield County is full of old and historical locations, buildings and remnants of by gone eras. Come and cache Clearfield County to learn about it's rich history through ghost towns, abandoned cemeteries, Civil War uprising, and it's rich Native American presence.
The corrdinates above will take you to a historical marker where you will need to get the information for the final coordinates.
You will be figuring the following coords; N 41 07.LMN W 078 06.OPQ
For L - Take the last number of the year the furnace was rebuilt by Peter Ritner and John Say and subtract that number from the second number of that same year.
For M - Add together the last two numbers of the year the furnace was erected by Peter Karthaus.
For N - Subtract the third number of the year the furnace became a "coke" furnace from the last number of the year the furnace was erected by Mr. Karthaus
For O - What is the last number of the year the furnace was first built?
For P - Add the first and third number of the year the furnace started using "coke".
For Q - What is the last number of the year that this historical marker was erected by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission?