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It's beginning to look a lot like....Yarmouth? Multi-Cache

Hidden : 12/19/2021
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:


🎵 It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas! 🎵


"It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" is a famous Christmas song written in 1951 by Meredith Willson.

A popular belief in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, holds that Willson wrote the song while staying in Yarmouth's Grand Hotel.The song makes reference to a "tree in the Grand Hotel, one in the park as well..."; the park being Frost Park, directly across the road from the Grand Hotel, which still operates in a newer building on the same site as the old hotel. It also makes mention of the five and ten which was a store operating in Yarmouth at the time  and during the holidays the town’s downtown core would be filled with rows of candy canes.  "
Take a look at the five and ten, it's glistening once again with candy canes and silver lanes that glow"

The story even appeared in national news as seen here:
It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Yarmouth? - YouTube

Posted Coordinates/Stage 1: Will take you to a historical plauque about the park`s namesake that will allow you to locate the final coordinates where the cache is located.

The year on the plaque - 1543 = The missing digits in North 

The year on the plaque - 1846 = The missing digits in West

Final: N 43° 50.xxx W 066° 07.xxx
A quick checksum: All missing digits added toghther = 10

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Hc naq vafvqr/ guerr uhaqerq naq gjb

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)