Cudahy's Bacon on the Yellowstone Trail Mystery Cache
Cudahy's Bacon on the Yellowstone Trail
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Before highways had numbers, there was the Yellowstone Trail.
City officials in Cudahy and South Milwaukee want to revive interest in one of the nation's first transcontinental highways by promoting the history of the Yellowstone Trail in their communities as well driving up new interest in their cities, much as the original trail was designed to do nearly a century ago.
"This is a celebration of the history of Cudahy as part of this historical trail that went from coast to coast," said Alderman Joe Mikolajczak.
Cudahy officials dedicated their portion of the Yellowstone Trail in May 2005, following the lead of South Milwaukee, which became the first community in the country to mark the Yellowstone Trail through the city in a turn-by-turn fashion in 2003.
Large yellow route markers are erected along both cities' trail routes for history buffs or intrigued travelers who choose to make their way along the 3,700 mile run, which stretches across about 13 states from Massachusetts to Washington. It was marked in its earlier days by yellow stones.
Better known today as the South Shore's Highway 32, the Yellowstone Trail makes twists and turns through Cudahy and South Milwaukee, starting in Milwaukee County at Oak Creek from the south and moving toward Milwaukee's Fond du Lac Ave.
The trail was first developed in 1912 as the dominance of railroad travel began to fade and an increased number of cars resulted in increased demand for roads.
The original Yellowstone Trail Association, which operated from 1912 to 1930, did not build roads but rather lobbied for good roads. It also provided instructions for the construction and maintenance of roads.
Composed of businessmen in small towns who wished to boost their local economy by being on a well-used road, the association promoted cross-country tourist traffic, marked the route, provided maps of the trail and encouraged use of the automobile beyond local travel.
"By marking the trail, we're trying to make is easier for heritage travelers," he said. "We want to make our community more appealing than other communities to stop."
For more information on the Yellowstone Trail, go to www.yellowstonetrail.org.
This is part of my series of caches along the Yellowstone Trail, with one in each town along the way, noting something special about that town.
In Cudahy, the founder of the city, Patrick Cudahy remains a strong presence in the city, with the large packing plant still in the town, which is a major employer, and responsible for tons of meat production.
There is already a cache placed near the Cudahy meat packing plant, right on the Yellowstone Trail, Makin Bacon, that is worth a visit.
To find this cache, you will need to do a little research on the city's founder, and his business.
The final cache is at:
42.57.ABC
87.50.DEF
A = 0
B = The fourth digit of the year that Patrick Cudahy took over a meat packing company. (answer is not 4)
C = The number of letters in the type of wood that Cudahy uses to flavor it's bacon.
D = The second digit of Patrick Cudahy's birthday - 1
E = The second digit of the date (day) of Patrick Cudahy's birth
F = 4
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Ab arrq gb tb irel sne qbja gur uvyy.
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