The listed starting co-ordinates will take you to the the first stop on your tour of historic Mt. Pleasant, Ohio. At GZ you should see the Harris-Bone store, the oldest standing building in Mt. Pleasant. Across the street will be the Free Labor Store/Benjamin Lundy Home. Navigating towards the town square will take you past the Elizabeth House. At the town square you will see the museum. Also there is the town bell, and a small memorial at the square between the museum and the bank. Navigating through the square you will see the Burris store and Hogg Mansion. From there you will need to find the Quaker Meeting House. There are many signs in town to help you find it. It is the only stop not on the main road through town.
While visiting these sites, you will need to gather information (numbers) from what you see. These numbers will give you the co-ordinates of a puzzle that you will then need to solve. Correct assembly of the puzzle will give you a tool to assist in retrieving the actual cache container.
The co-ordinates: N 40 AB.CDE w 080 FG.HIJ
A=_____? Benjamin Lundy Home - What is the last digit of the year he moved to Mt. Pleasant?
B=_____? Quaker Meeting House (QMH) - Add the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th digits of the number of people the QMH was build to hold.
C=_____? Museum - How many underground railroad houses are still standing in Mt. Pleasant?
D=_____? Elizabeth House - What is the 1st digit of the house number? Add 5.
E=_____? Museum - What is the 3rd digit in the year the Free Labor Store/Benjamin Lundy House was built?
F=_____? QMH - What is the last digit in the year construction of the QMH started?
G=_____? Harris-Bone Store - What is the last digit of Moses Fleetwood Walker's birth year?
H=_____? Hogg Mansion - What is the last digit of the house number?
Aternate - H=_____? There is a sign in front of the mansion. It has 3 words. Two of the 3 words have the same number of letters. It seems the original clue may be missing.
I= _____? Burris Store - What is the number that appears first in the house number?
J=_____? QMH - The year Mt. Pleasant "Hummed with activity" minus the year Charles Osborn spoke at the QMH.
The Mt. Pleasant Historical Society offers official tours throughout the year. More information can be found on their Facebook page. Some of the listed sites and many others are listed as waymarks. This tour can be completed either by driving or walking from place to place. You decide.
FTF gets a Mt.Pleasant magnet if you like. Room for some small trade items. Bring your own writing tool and please place the tool back where you found it and cover it up so it doesn't get muggled by accident. Forgot to add these two items to the original listing. Added 5/14/14. Congrats to D2 for FTF.