Letterboxing on the Sweet Briar College Campus

• In the 19th Century Sweet Briar was a several-thousand acre plantation; it was transformed into a college in 1901, after the death of Indiana Fletcher Williams.
  
• The clues listed below will guide you through ante-bellum features and outside of 20th-century buildings . See if you can find the features discussed below.
• Each clue is within a "region" which corresponds to the map at the bottom of the page.
  
  •For a downloadable pdf file to bring with you on your hunt click here.

Clue 1: What is another, historic way to tell time ? Locate the outdoor artifact that will tell you the time of day (if you know how to use it). Clue 2: Locate the following feature. Can you guess what it was used for ? To answer this question you have to decide who lived in the small house behind it. Clue 3: This artifact originally served as a millstone, used to grind wheat or other grains. Most likely, it was scavenged from the plantation and reused as a decorative element. This piece is the base of a grinding device, can you imagine what the top half would have looked like ? Clue 4: The letters in the sign are scrambled. Once you unscramble it you will discover the name of a man who lived on the Sweet Briar Plantation from the 1840s until his death in 1858. See if you can find the sign.Clue 5: Sometimes it pays to look down when you are searching for something. The Sweet Briar bricks were made from dirt obtained on campus from features called "borrow pits." Can you find this intersection of two patterns ? Clue 6: In the 1880s, a girl named Daisy lived at Sweet Briar. She had a pony named Bounce. Together, they rode around the plantation. See if you can find a hitching post that may have been used by them. For a bonus question : see if you can find a second hitching post that is covered in layers of paint. Clue 7: The first image is a picture from an old postcard, labelled "Elm Street." Can you find this spot on campus (with slightly older and/or different trees). Hint: view the modern photograph below and try to orient yourself. Once you find the spot, locate the Atlas Cedar tree (it will have a plaque on it).Clue 8: Dorothy J. Sales (1924-2003) was honored by Sweet Briar after 49 years of service and having earned an honorary degree from the college. Find the building that is named in her honor. To learn more about Mrs Sales' life, click here

Campus Map
The goal of letterboxing is to think about the clues, not search 1000s of acres - the map below will help you focus on certain parts of campus during your search,