Indian Haulover Revised Multi-Cache

This cache provides one with a brief history of one aspect of Fort Lauderdale Beach and gives you a chance to take a tour of the beach area.

In the early days of Fort Lauderdale, Frank Stranahan and his wife Ivy resided on the New River, just off what is now Las Olas Blvd. Their residence is now on the National Register of Historic places. The Stranahan House is worth a visit.

Frank Stranahan had moved to the area to man the stagecoach stop. He befriended the Seminoles and began to do business with them  -  opening a trading post in 1893. He paid them cash for animal hides and eggs and they in turn bought ammunition, fabric and supplies from his store. Ivy Stranahan became the first schoolteacher in the area.

In a 1970 interview, Ivy Stranahan explained that every six weeks a flotilla of canoes would arrive in front of the trading post carrying animal skins, hides and alligator eggs. The hides would be sold immediately, while the eggs were kept in a pen, covered with straw and debris, until they hatched. Live baby alligators were then shipped to Jacksonville. The Stranahans received regular orders for baby alligators from souvenir and novelty shops in tourist towns throughout Florida. One such order, from Osky's Florida Souvenir and Novelties in Jacksonville, requested 3,000 baby alligators for $125 per thousand.

The land mass of the area has changed significantly since those early days. Back then the Seminoles gained access to the Atlantic Ocean, from the New River Sound, by manually hauling their canoes over the beach, in the area where you will be standing when you commence this search. The historical sign posted there contains information needed to solve the puzzle and find this cache. Rather simplistic, all you need to do is equate numbers to letters of the alphabet and then transpose the appropriate combination into the given Lat/Long for the Final. Here are the clues:

Refuge Number Four was built in ABCD
Refuge Number Four was moved to this site in EFGH
The Coast Guard began using the House of Refuge in IJKL
Coast Guard Base "M" became permanent in NOPQ
The city purchased this property in RSTU

Thus the Final can be found at the following location:
 

    N26 C.(F-E) (H+E) (S)  and
  

    W80 (U - R) . H N L

Finding the cache should be easy, although it is a high Muggle area. You may need to take the nearby seat and wait for a bit until the area is clear. The difficulty rating is based on the puzzle.

You can validate your puzzle solution with certitude.