girtys booty Traditional Cache
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Native Americans. The Ottawa Tribe lived along the banks of the Maumee River. Their village sites and burial grounds are scattered along the river.
The missionaries, traders, trappers, hunters and explorers entered the scene. The Native Americans, of course, resented the intrusion. The British, in and attempt to interfere with the successful formation of the United States Government, incited the Native Americans to fierce resistance to settlement. The white renegade British agent, Simon Girty who aided the Natives, cause this uprising in the 1780's and 1790's.
Girty served as a scout under Lord Dunsmore in Pennsylvania. It is said that he and another scout, Simon Kenton, served with merit. However, Girty, for some reason of his own, deserted his fellowmen, turned traitor and from that time on lived and fought with the Native Americans. He is supposed to have been adopted by the Seneca Tribe, the fiercest of the tribes composing the Iroquois alliance.
Up the river a distance about five miles from Napoleon is located "Girty Island" and "Girty's Point" which were his favorite places to retreat. Simon Girty fell from favor with the Native Americans and he retreated to the north bank of the river opposite the island where he built a cabin. Early settlers in the 1820's report finding the remains of his cabin. It was located on what now is the Gunn farm.
You can see part of the island if you visit sq cole cache,someone logged a picture. A view of the mighty maumee I placed this cache along a section of the miami erie canal tow path, also referred as the buckeye trail.Parking is at the beginning of this section of the trail, you can pull right into the trail head. It starts at the drive of the cement plant so stay to the far left if you park in the drive and not the trail head.The cache has room for some coins or small travel bugs.I have placed a coin in the cache to do with as you please for a FTF prize.E-mail me your email address and I'll send you the activation code.
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