WARNING: When there are strong North or East winds, the terrain
rating of this cache goes from 1.5 to 4.5.
Welcome to the Racine City Stroll cache. Please note that the
cache is not located at the coordinates given above. This
coordinate is the location of one of 4 intermediate waypoints
located along South Main Street in Racine.
You can either walk or drive along Main to
find the locations described below. After determining the location of
the final, you will probably want to drive across the Main Street
bridge to get you closer to your goal.
If you need computer access, free WI-FI and other computer access
isavailable at the Racine Public Library (N 42° 43.558’,
W087°46.863’)
This cache will take you on a short walking
tour of the downtown Racine area. To find this cache, you will need
to proceed along South Main Street and determine the answers to
certain questions available from general observation. Note that I am only going to give
a coordinate for the first location, but you should not have any
problems finding the necessary information. All waypoints are along Main
between 12th and 3rd Street and within 50
feet of the sidewalk.
Additionally, there will be questions for most of the locations
which will be used to construct the partial coordinates of a bonus
cache.
WP 1 – N 42° 43.247’
W087° 46.922’
Here you will find a statue of a US President
and First Lady, the first of its kind in America.
Question 1
ABCD = the year the statue was erected.
Question 2
EFGH = the year the bequestor was born
Now proceed north and find the rest of the
WPs.
WP 2 – Find the Racine Heritage
Museum.
Question 3
IJKL = the year the school bell was manufactured
WP3 – Find Haymarket Square and its
several monuments (There is a very tall civil war monument at the
center of the square)
Question 4
M/NP/1833 = the date the land you are standing on was ceded by the
Potowatomis
Question 5
Q/RS/1854 = the date of the Joshua Glover
“Incident”
WP4 – Find this (No, this is not a
rejected draft for the next JJJTBA puzzle cache!)
While facing the artwork, turn left and look
across the street. You
will see a jewelry store with a name that suggests two metals
(neither of which is silver)
Question 6 TUV
= the street number of the jewelry store
FINAL – Using the above information, the
cache is located at:
N CH° LC.SGG’ W FG° LP.TUL’
Note: If the map on your GPS shows this
cache in Lake Michigan, you might want to consult a more
detailed