Brigadier General Garrard Traditional Cache
Brigadier General Garrard
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Cache is located just off Frontenac Cematary Grounds near the gravesite of Civil War Brigadier General Garrard and family.
The first American settler was James "Bully" Wells, who had a fur trading post near modern Frontenac town by 1840. Later he sold his interests to a Dutch immigrant named Evert Westervelt. However the Dakota were evicted onto reservations, and Westervelt was forced to diversify. He partnered with another settler, Israel Garrard, and established a town in 1857 which he named after himself. Two years later Garrard bought out Westervelt and renamed the town Frontenac, after Louis de Buade de Frontenac who had been governor of New France in the late 17th century. Garrard served in the Civil War, rising to the rank of general. After the war he helped turn Frontenac into a summer resort for the leisure class. His brother Jeptha Garrard was an inventor of flying machines, which were tested, unsuccessfully, from the bluff overlooking the town. Wealthy visitors arrived in Frontenac by steamboat from as far away as New Orleans. Meanwhile limestone was quarried from the bluff. The Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in New York City was constructed of stone from Frontenac. Frontenac's heyday ended when railroads supplanted river travel at the end of the 1800s.
The cache is a regular size, camo container full of trading items and a log book. Please be respectful of the cemetary grounds and the rich history found within.
Contragulations To "tjretzer" - FTF
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