Working in a Coal Mine Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 11/29/2003
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

The cache is a standard ammo can filled with household trade items.

Your journey for the cache will begin at the George H. Rudy Coal camp. The period from the turn-of-the-century until the 1960's was the heyday of the American coal camp. Over 20,000 coal camps were established during this period. Kentucky was among the leaders with large corporate companies like United States Steel, International Harvester, Blue Diamond Coal Corporation, Bethlehem Steel, and others building hundreds of camps throughout the Commonwealth. Smaller, family-owned camps appeared such as this, the George H. Rudy Camp. It was in operation from 1930 to 1954 and employed 40 men.

The state of Kentucky is in process of restoring the old camp. You can still visit the original Scale House, Boiler Room and Mine Shaft entrance.

You will find some trail heads at: N37.47.137 W87.12.159. You can follow the Rudy Mine trail to the cache location.

You can access the mine camp and the trails from Overstreet road off of Highway 60. The gates to the parking lot may be locked during the off season but you can park nearby and walk to the trails.

Special Thanks to Paul Corum & Barry Griffin of Ben Hawes State Park for permission to place this cache.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Onfr bs gerr

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)


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