The cache is NOT at the posted Coordinates.
The Adventure Lab associated with this cache is called 'Copeland's Gold'
This BONUS CACHE is a physical container, which follows the rules of cache placement and is an added bonus when you play the Adventure Lab associated with this Bonus Cache.
Clues to the final coordinates of the container will be presented after correct answers to the questions.
James Copeland was an outlaw during the early to mid nineteenth century, whose crimes took place mostly, in southern Mississippi and Alabama. He was the co-leader of a gang known as the Wages and Copeland Clan, of which he became a memeber when he was just a teenager.
Copeland, being an area outlaw, didn't make him a famous outlaw. His hanging was just like any other hanging in this part of the country. He would have long been forgotten if it weren't for one incident that made his a legend.
James Copeland, before being hanged by the neck, gave his last confessions to the Sheriff of Perry County which revealed that he and his clan had buried $30,000 of gold in a secret location. (That was it's worth at the time of it's burial.)
It was reported that they buried the gold near Mobile, AL and then later reburied it near the Catahoula River, in what is now Hancock County, MS. Every creek and river has been searched since then in hopes of finding 'Copeland's Gold'.
Copeland reported he had a map of the location, but lost it in the a battle that took place at the battle and killing of James Harvey.
Long story short, Copeland was captured, served a prison term in Mobile, tried for his crimes in MS, and hung in Agusta, not to far from Wiggins, near the Leaf River.
His his gold has never been found.
Several mysteries still exist regarding Copeland.
Before his death on the gallows in 1857, Copeland made a full confession to Sheriff J.R.S. Pitts in naming each member of the clan. Many clan members were prominent citizens of Mobile and the surrounding area. Pitts published the confessions, but all copies mysteriously disappeared.
A second publication was written by the son of Pitts, but it was only a recollection of the first. Very few copies of those publications are in existance.
After Copeland's hanging, his body was buried beside the Leaf River and after two or three days, it disappeared. A skeleton was purportedly made of his remains and allegedly put on exhibit at McInnis and Dozier Drugstore in Hattiesburg, MS, in the late 19th century. In the early 1900s, the skeleton vanished and has never been seen again.
The legend of Copeland's Gold lives on today, as treasure hunters search sections of the MS coast for burial sites of the Copeland/Wages gang's ill-gotten gains.
Play the Adventure Lab associated with this cache and you may very well find Copeland's Gold.
A Google search or wikipedia search will give more information.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Copeland_(outlaw)
A few things before you get started:
The correct answers to the Lab locations will give you part of the Final Coordinates to this Bonus. Make sure you make note of those and place in the right order for the correct coordinates.
The Adventure Lab 'Copeland's Gold' in in sequential order. The last will bring you near the final so make sure you park in the area that is mentioned in the last lab.
North A .B West C D .E
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