Welcome to the Farewell to Finder’s Fest geo-art, brought to you by the Forest Minions! This series celebrates weird and unusual things throughout the Sunshine State. Please do not go to the posted locations. Rather, solve the challenging quiz found at the bottom of each page, for the final location. For the letterbox caches, please leave the stamp in the cache. They are not trade items. For the discerning traveler, we’ve included the GPS coordinates for these bizarre locations, when we were able to establish them.
Schoolhouse Stairway Dungeon – Location 29.8973, -81.3136
There’s nothing like a visit to St Augustine’s Oldest Wooden Schoolhouse Museum to bring back memories of those carefree elementary school days of the 18th century; dunce caps, a privy out back, a schoolmaster living overhead, and a creep Harry Potteresque dungeon under the stairs, where they put kids who misbehaved. This is what detention looked like 200 years ago.
Located in the Minorcan Quarter of St Augustine, the original structure of the schoolhouse was one room in a single story, with an outhouse, and detached kitchen. It first appeared on the tax rolls as far back as 1716, but it didn’t become a school until the first recorded owner got married and became the schoolmaster. With a new wife and kids to educate, the little cedar and cypress building was expanded to include a small upstairs living quarters.
Here is the super duper, way challenging, really hard trivia question, which, if solved properly, will lead you to the final coordinates:
Question: Which critter can reportedly sense a pending earthquake, 5 days before they happen?
A: Pokemon = N29° 27.270' W81° 51.566'
B: Unicorns = N29° 27.270' W81° 51.576'
C: Snakes = N29° 27.270' W81° 51.586'