HHMT 3: Native's Trail, Native Trees Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 5/25/2008
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2.5 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

This cache is part of the 100 mile/ 22 cache series known as the
Huron History Mystery Tour (HHMT)

If you are doing this cache by canoe or Kayak, please go downstream a slight ways to the landing area and trails(It is not far. See the waypoint below.) The cache is a plastic lock n lock. A geocoin awaits the FTF finder!

Years ago this area was a busy area for the native people. This cache is located at a Pignut Hickory Tree. Hickory wood is a valued lumber because it is hard and heavy wood. Pignut trees are a sister tree to the Shagbark Hickory Tree. Shagbark Hickory nuts are edible and were a staple food source many Michigan tribes in the past. Many isolated northern stands originated by Native Peoples that carried nuts to new locations. This may be one of those stands!
Also, the trail following the river is an old Indian Trail! This trail runs a very long way through Southeast Michigan. Chief Pontiac once lived in this area and walked on this very same path you will be following today! He is said to have had a home on Apple Island , in Orchard Lake. This great Indian chief was born around 1720, probably in the Ottawa village on the Detroit River. A friend of the French, Pontiac was angered by the British rule which began in 1760, and plotted its overthrow. In 1763 he led the Indians of the area in an attack on Detroit with other tribes, who were inspired by him, rose against the British in the West and overwhelmed every fort save Fort Pitt and Niagara. He was a great battle planner and fierce warrior! But, Pontiac's siege of Detroit failed. With it, this greatest of Indian uprisings also failed. In 1769 Pontiac was killed by another Indian in Illinois. He probably was buried in St. Louis, Missouri. The city of Pontiac was named in his honor.
Landing Waypoint: N42 30.611 W083 42.032
This cache has been approved and permitted by the DNR.

Cache the Huron History Mystery Tour and reap yer reward!
Be sure to record the secret letter on the inside lid of each cache.
The first 50 cachers or teams to complete all 22 HHMT caches earn the coveted
Huron History Mystery Tour Geocoin!
See the details at www.huronhistorymysterytour.com

Also, each cache contains one different, highly collectible, HHMT Trading Card. Collect all 22!

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