Gaunt Park Cache Traditional Cache

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Texas Tornado: Since there has been no response to my prior note, I am archiving this listing.

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Hidden : 10/1/2006
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:



Small cache located in Gaunt Park in Yellow Springs.

Cache with confidence - Permission granted for this cache.

Gaunt park is the largest park in Yellow Springs. It has several baseball and softball dimaonds and a very active smimming pool during the summer months. Gaunt park is the place to be for Fourth of July fireworks. Please stick to daytime only caching as the park closes at dusk.

Named in honor of Wheeling Gaunt, a former slave who purchased his own freedom, came to Yellow Springs in the 1860s and owned a substantial amount of land upon his death in 1894. Gaunt bequeathed to the village a large piece of land on the Western side of the village, requesting that the rent be used to buy flour for the "poor and worthy widows" of Yellow Springs. Although the land was used to create Gaunt Park, and thus does not generate rent, the village expanded the request to include sugar and still delivers flour and sugar to the village's widows at Christmas time, a tradition that generates annual media coverage.
Cache was placed as part of our Family Farm Fun event.

Cache located in Greene County
================================================ Replaced by mperiodjenkins on 5/31/2011

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

srapr yvar uvqqra vafvqr n snyyra gerr whfg cnfg pragresvryq

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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