Muckini-who? Traditional Cache
Ed_M: This one had a good run, but it's gone missing three times.
Perhaps one of the neighbors is a spoilsport. :)
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You're looking for a 4x6 Lock & Lock. Parking is available streetside. This should be an easy grab as long as you don't mind hopping down a small hill.
If it's rained recently, you -might- get wet feet.
There is no need to go into anyones back yard. This cache is hidden on the swimming pool side of the creek, and is accessible from the parking lot.
BYOP.
FTF prize is a new 4G USB flash drive.
This is an excellent CITO opportunity -- despite the fact that our local scout pack cleans up here yearly, it still ends up collecting trash.
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The Muckinipattis or Muckinpates Creek is a 5.4-mile-long creek which runs through Delaware County, Pennsylvania and enters Darby Creek just prior to the Delaware River.
The creek is believed to begin with two branches, one in Springfield Township and the other underneath the parking lot of the former Bazaar of all Nations. The Muckinipattis then proceeds past the Primos-Secane swim club in Upper Darby Township. Further downstream it flows under the former A&P parking lot in Secane before forming the border of Darby and Ridley townships. It empties into Darby Creek between the shores of Montgomery Park in the borough of Folcroft and the historic Morton House in Norwood.
The name "Muckinipates" is a Lenni-Lenape word meaning "deep running water". The Otter and Turtle tribes within the Leni Lenape nation hunted, lived along the creek and had a small village on what today is Montgomery Park in Folcroft.
The Old Mill, or Old Mill Dam, which today sits at the junction of Delmar Drive in Folcroft, South Avenue in Glenolden, and East Amosland in Norwood was built in 1775 by Thomas Shipley. The gristmill was popular among grain farmers from as far away as Delaware and New Jersey, who would operate barges called "one stickers" up the Muckinipattis to have their goods processed. The mill was at one time owned by John Morton, grandson of Morton Mortensen, and the deciding vote on the Declaration of Independence.
The mill was sold and re-purposed a number of times. It was a bobbin factory when it finally burned down in February 1899.
The confluence of Muckinipattis Creek with Darby Creek is next to the John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge at Tinicum.
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