Over the last few years, Lawrence University has re-embraced this segment of the waterfront by adding open trails, inviting students to place temporary art and by installing historical plaques detailing the University's connection to the Fox River. What better way to highlight this enhancement than to place a few new caches?
Coordinates will bring you to the second marker just a little way down the trail entitled Early People of the Fox River. Answer a few questions to compile your solve coordinates and complete the cache.
N44 AB.CDE W088 FG.HIJ
This plaque depicts a map from 18GJ which shows the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers as they appeared then and the A.B mile portage that connected the two. Strange to think about the 1E0 years that had already passed when this map was created and the first time a European navigated these waters. Missionary Claude Allouez made that early exploration in the spring of 1669, describing many of the places along the Fox that we now call home. Certainly, he must have encountered any number of Native Americans in his travels, some of home had been here for millennia. This was primarily the Land of the Fox, though according to the plaque, I other tribes called it home. Unfortunately, due to the intense conflicts between the Iroquois and the French, even the remnants of the Fox eventually moved West and even beyond the Mississippi in 18C0 to live among F local tribes. There are a couple of interesting oil painting depicted at the bottom. One, by Seth Eastman, 18H7 shows Rice Gatherers hard at work and another by Paul Kane, 184D shows what must have been exciting spear-fishing by torchlight! There is also an inset alluding to the Fox Wars and the conflict with the French that lead to the exodus of many native tribes.