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Tiffin-Seneca Public Library Cache Mystery Cache

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Hidden : 8/17/2012
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:

The cache is not at the provided coordinates, but rather you will find directions to locate the cache. The final location to the cache is located inside of the Tiffin-Seneca Public Library, so please make sure you are attempting this cache while the T-SPL is open.

Library hours:
Monday - Thursday 9:30a-8:30p
Friday - Saturday 9:30a-5:30p
Sunday 1:00p-5:00p
excluding National Holidays.

The Tiffin-Seneca Public Library can be traced back to March 6, 1880 and was founded by Rezin W. Whawhan, Warren P. Noble, Laura Groff Bunn, Francis Wagner, Florence Cornise (first woman lawyer in Ohio), Laura B. Sneath, and George G Harriman.

The library was originally on the second floor of the Market House (old City Hall) and had 1600 volumes. The first patrons paid $.10 admission or a life membership could be purchased for $30. The first librarian, Miss Hattie Campbell, was paid $.50 a day for a minimum of 300 days per year. Library hours were 9:30a-9:00p daily.

By 1886 the library moved to the basement of the courthouse and had grown to 2000 volumes. In 1952 the T-SPL began the motion picture film-lending service and in 1954 a collection of musical recording became available for loan. And in January 1976 the T-SPL moved 66,000 volumes to the library's current location.

Today the T-SPL houses more than 428,000 items, including books, art reproductions, DVDs, CD, CD-ROMs, and much more. The library provides services to more that 181,000 individuals with educational programs and classes, in home delivery, summer reading programs, preschool story time, book discussions, genealogical research, and of course the lending of materials.


To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
― W. Somerset Maugham

Just in case the library is out, here is a worksheet for you to use.

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