The above coordinates are fake, but are within 2 miles of the cache. You can either walk in an increasing spiral until you find it, or solve the puzzle below for the coordinates.
I didn't have the opportunity to take a Women in History course, so I have learned about a lot of women from the WIH series begun by MAMD. To return the favor, I will try to highlight women who probably didn't appear in the course. This one came from an 1800s history book reprint I found on the Internet. To begin with, I'll start with two facts about Colonial America.
To encourage settlement, England often made large grants of frontier land. For instance in 1736 the Royal Governor of Virginia offered up to 500,000 acres west of the Blue Ridge to Benjamin Burden, at a rate of 1000 acres per cabin built, on the condition that he settle at least 100 families there. Burden in turn offered 100 acres to anyone who would build a cabin, which would secure his grant and gain 900 acres each for Burden. Perhaps because he expected the settlers to live in them, he apparently set no requirements for size and construction of cabins.
That era also featured indentured servitude, under which in exchange for something a person would work free for a period of years. For example, in exchange for him paying for her passage from Europe, Polly Mulhollin agreed to work for James Bell for the customary 7 years. And people complain about student loans today!
At the completion of her servitude, Polly put on men's clothing which was better suited to her task, and built a cabin on Burden's grant. But clever Polly realized that she was not required to live in the cabin, nor was there a limit to how many cabins she could build. So industrious Polly went to work and built a total of 30 cabins, claiming 3000 acres of land! Apparently this line of work did not suit her, as she then went back to women's clothing.
The cache can be found at N43 28.A6A W71 53.2BC, where A is the number of years Polly agreed to work and BC is the number of cabins she built. [Did you remember, or have to look them up?] Please indicate in your log if you had previously heard of Polly Mulhollin.
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