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CCCC - Martinez Mystery Cache

Hidden : 9/30/2018
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:


There are many great cities in Contra Costa County. The Contra Costa County Cities (CCCC) series should take you to all of them (the major cities), where you can gather codes, and find the final (which is located near the highest elevation spot in the county. You can find codes on the logs of all the caches, which will give you numbers for math to find the final, which will be published after all of the other caches.

This cache is for the County Seat, Martinez. Martinez is named after Ygnacio Martinez, who was a key founder in Contra Costa History. It was founded during the gold rush in 1849, and has many claims to fame, including John Muir, Joe DiMaggio, the Martini, and the oil factories. Martinez is also my home town.

The final for the cache is not located in the Martinez City Hall, but rather at: N 37 59.ABC W 122 07.DEF

A. Martinez was a stop on the Pony Express in 18A0

B. The Muir Trestle is 1,68B feet long. There is a great view of Muir Trestle from the cache.

C. Martinez became the county seat in 1850, but could not incorporate at the time because it lacked the C00 registered voters required, and only became a city in 1876.

D. In 182D the Alhambra Valley was included in the Rancho El Pinole Mexican land grant to Ygnacio Martínez

E. Martinez was incorporated as a city on April 1, 187E

F. In 184F, Dr. Robert Semple contracted to provide ferry service from Martinez to Benicia, which for many years was the only crossing on the Carquinez Strait

 

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YCP

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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