In the months following Charlottesville in 2017, two monuments in Lexington, one of CSA Gen. John Hunt Morgan and the other of CSA Secretary of War John C. Breckinridge, were removed from the grounds of the old Lexington courthouse and Cheapside Park. Cheapside Park itself was the site of the a large slave market before the Civil War, and the park has since been renamed to Henry Tandy Centenial Park.
The monuments remained in storage for almost a year until they found their homes the in Lexington Cemetery.
- The Morgan statue now stands in the Confederate section of the cemetery along side other Confederate monuments.
- The Breckenridge statue stands next to the Breckenridge family plot.
Breckenridge
At the posted coordinates, the Breckenridge statue is found. At this location, find the following information:
- C is the count of the letter V on the statue's base.
- In the family plot, find the headstone in the shape of a cross with Frontier Nursing Service on its base. Add the last two digits of the birth year together to get A.
- Subtract the same last two digits of the birth year together to get X
Morgan
The second stage is at the Morgan statue.
- Z is the number of points on one of Morgan's spurs.
- On the nearby Confederate memorial at the section corner, the number order of those remembered is quite odd. The number following 100th name is not 101. B is the second (tens) digit of the number that follows 100.
- Find the last numbered name on the same Confederate monument. Y is the last digit (ones digit) of that last number.
The cache is found at N 38° 3.ABC' W 84° 30.XYZ'. The checksum of A + B + C + X + Y + Z = 30.
The cache is a plastic ammo box with log and room for trade items. As always bring your own writing insttument.