GCRPVC Broken Corner - Stoneham Coins (Unknown Cache) in Massachusetts, United States created by Loch Cache

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SearchNSeekNEnjoy: I am archiving this cache since there's been no response from nor action by the cache owner within the time frame requested in the last reviewer note. The cache owner should retrieve any remaining cache contents at their earliest convenience.

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Hidden : 1/19/2006

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This is an idea that has been kicking around in my head for a while. To find this cache you will have to find a broken corner of Stoneham, Massachusetts. What is a broken corner? Read on to find out.

What is a broken corner?
If you look it up using Goggle you will not find my definition. My definition has been carefully honed over years (or at least a few days) to the following:

A broken corner of a town is a portion of the town which, by car, cannot be reached from the center of the town without first entering another town.

Got it? To be clearer, to reach a portion of town A, you have to drive from the center of town A, into town B and then back into town A.

So how does this happen?
Town boundaries have existed in most places for centuries. They were drawn up at a time when roads lead from center to center. The roads would follow the contour of the land or the curve of the river. If you needed to get to the northwest portion of the town, you hitched up the wagon and headed up the road or down the trail to get there.

Even up through the first part of the twentieth century roads tended to connect, not disconnect portions of towns. The Federal-Aid Highway Acts of 1954 & 1956 changed that. We now have over 46,360 miles of the Dwight D. Eisenhower System of Interstate and Defense Highways. Although the designers drew up tons of documents on how the highway system could be built without disruption of towns they pass through, there are still times when the highway not only cuts through a town (just look at Medford, MA) but also cuts off part of the town.

This is what has happened with neighboring Stoneham. There is a portion of Stoneham that has been cut off by one of the two major Interstate Highways that runs through the area. The area has a couple of businesses even some residences.

What you need to do to find the cache?
First off, find this Broken Corner of Stoneham. If you cannot figure out where it is from what I have said on this page then you can do the following: take the coordinates listed for this page, and project a waypoint at 1.6 miles at 321 degrees. This will put you somewhere in the broken corner.

As you enter this Broken Corner of Stoneham you will see an object that demarcates Stoneham from the neighboring town. Pull over, park legally and look for the cache. It is a small vitamin bottle, which is within 10-15 feet of the object.

Why the word coins in the title?
Because the starting inventory is mostly coins along with one paper dollar. To log this cache you MUST exchange some cash. In your log please list what you took and what you left. Please considerate and take only one piece of money and leave one piece in its place. The starting inventory includes:

2005 Lewis & Clark Nickel (Ocean View)
West Virginia State Quarter (2005?)
California State Quarter (2005?)
Kansas State Quarter (2005?)
1976 Bicentennial Quarter
2000 Sacagawea Dollar
2003 One Dollar Bill that has 5 eights in the serial number
1945 & 1956D Wheat Pennies
1941, 1947, 1941 & 1952 Jefferson Nickels
One Chuckie Cheese Token

I don’t believe any of these coin are worth much more than their face value, but one never knows.

Good luck,
Loch Cache

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

ERNQ GUR PNPUR CNTR - vg vf arkg gb gur bowrpg ba gur Fgbarunz fvqr

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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