Congratulations to fsibero for First-To-Find.
The fifth in a series of nine, taking you to all of the communities of Goshen County, Wyoming.
Torrington, Lingle, Ft. Laramie, Jay Em, Huntley, Veteran, Yoder, Hawk Springs and La Grange
(Actually, there is a tenth, bonus cache, if you complete all nine. There will be a piece of information/clue in each cache, on a popsicle stick.
Make sure you put the clue back in the cache.)
Wyoming is my adopted state, with Torrington, Goshen County, as my adopted town. I have finally started hiding caches and wanted to see more mystery types, so I'm creating a Mystery Cache hide in each community in Goshen County. The physical caches shouldn't be too hard to locate, and the Mystery puzzles can all be solved from home with a little research. They are probably on the simple end of the spectrum and may be suitable to introduce new geocachers to mystery puzzles.
Huntley - Census-Designated Place Wikipedia
Around 1900, a fund established by the wealthy European philanthropist Baron Maurice de Hirsch to promote farming in the United States, sponsored several families by supporting them in establishing a new community around what is now Huntley.
At one time, there was a church, a grocery store, a post office and a lumber yard in the community
Today there are only 4 families that live in Huntley, however they still have a post office.
The old grocery building still stands... kinda...
The Cache:
The cache is NOT at the posted coordinates
The posted coordinates will take you to the Post Office
To find the coordinates of the cache:
Take the amount of money that Baron de Hirsch's fund sent to each family originally sponsored,
Divide that number by 2,
Add the population of Huntley in the 2010 census,
Add the number of miles the original community was south of the North Platte River,
Add the number of miles the original community was west of the Nebraska border,
Divide that total by 1000,
Subtract that result from the posted N minute coordinate.
Take the number of families originally sponsored by Baron Maurice de Hirsch around 1900 A.D.,
Divide that number by 10,000,
Subtract that result from the posted W minute coordinate.
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