The Library Multi-Cache
DaveandTonya: Stopped by and the cache is missing. There seemed to be a lot of trouble here lately so I'm letting it go.
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This is a two stage multi. The coords will take you to the first stage. Bring your own writing tool. You do not need to go into the library to complete this cache, but I recommend you do.
Outside the libraries front door, on the wall, you will find two plaques. Use the years on these plaques to complete the coordinates below.
Year on the eagles nest tree railing plaque: ABCD
Year on the historic building plaque: ABEB
Stage Two coordinates:
N 42* 00.DBA
W89* 20.EBB
The Oregon Public Library was established in 1872. The library resided in rental space until the early 1900's, when Andrew Carnegie announced that he would donate $10,000 for a public library in Oregon if the condition of providing a maintenance fund of 10 percent was met.
Plans for the current library building were drawn by Chicago architechts Pond and Pond. The construction contract was given, in 1907, to M.D. Smith of Dixon. Doors opened for public service in 1908.
A second floor gallery was provided at the suggestion of members of the Eagle's Nest Art Colony. The artists used the gallery space for public art exhibitions and lectures. Eagle's Nest Colony founder Lorado Taft persuaded fellow artists to donate over fifty works to the Oregon Public Library as a permanent collection. These paintings and sculpture remain in the library gallery to this day.
Thanks to the efforts of Oregon residents Marsha Behrens, Bonnie Kelly, and Helen Sierra, the Oregon Public Library was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 9, 2003.
Back then, the community constructed a beautiful building to house a small community library with a small collection of just 2,400 books and an annual circulation of just 7,112. Today, in the year 2010, the library houses a collection of over 32,000 books, periodicals, and audio/visual materials. The annual circulation is 42,000 items.
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