Common Pleas Community Multi-Cache
GeoMeoMy: Common Pleas Community is now archived due to construction around the courthouse. The tree where the cache was hidden was removed.
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Common Pleas Courthouse in downtown Cape Girardeau, Mo. was important to the Union forces which held the city during the Civil War, although the city was sympathetic to the Confederacy.
This multi-cache begins with the coordinates in front of the courthouse looking out to the Mississippi River. Downtown by the floodwall, imagine General Grant working late at night inside his headquarters at the present Port Cape Girardeau building, after the four-hour Battle of Cape Girardeau earlier that day of April 26, 1863.
The courthouse can be reached from Lorimier Street on the west side of the park, or from Spanish Street from the east side, below the terrace steps.
The coordinates to the geocache can be found by using clues from locations inside and nearby the park:
N37° 18.ABC
W089° 31.DEF
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On the north side of the courthouse is the gazebo. It was dedicated in honor of Dr. C. E. Schuchert, bandmaster of Schuchert's Concert Band. On the left historical marker, add the first and last numbers of the year Dr. Schuchert died.
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Walk across the street to see the two tile murals on the Southeast Missourian building. In "The Art of Printing," add the number of letters in the last name of the man "rearing back in his chair."
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In the mural "Gathering and Disseminating News," add the number of letters in the last name of the Judge of Jackson County, and then subtract 6.
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Back at Courthouse Park, walking past the Vietnam and Confederate war memorials, go to the Civil War memorial fountain. A plaque at the base notes the year it was erected. Add the last two numbers of the year.
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On the historical marker near the fountain, note the year the courthouse was built. Add the first and last numbers, then subtract 5.
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Walk one block west along Themis Street to a small city park at the corner of Fountain Street. Add the letters of the last name of the person for whom the park is named. (You may follow the brick path to a display board.)
The park department granted permission to place the cache.
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