Parkville Mill - Michigan Lost Towns Series Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 1/21/2010
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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This cache is part of the Michigan's Lost Towns Series Park Township was organized in 1838, and Parkville was laid out in 1851 by Luther Carlton and surveyed by James Hutchinson. The first lot was purchased by Mary King for ten dollars. A mill pond and races on the Portage River provided power for a woolen factory built in 1851, a saw mill, and a grist mill built in 1853. In 1877 it had the mills and factory, three churches, two blacksmiths, a tavern, and a school. The churches were Seventh Day Adventist, Presbyterian, and Methodist Episcopal. The dedication of the Seventh-day Adventist meeting house in Parkville was on January 12, 1861, and was attended by Ellen G. White. She reportedly had a vision at that time of a "terrible war", this was three months before the firing on Ft. Sumter that began the US Civil War. (Reported in the book "Divine Predictions", by F.C.Gilbert, pages 214-222.) The Adventist church was later purchased for the Parkville Grange Hall, and the Presbyterian Church became the town hall. Both were torn down in the 1960s. The brick Methodist church still stands, although it is no longer a church. Frank Dentler of Parkville invented the Dentler Bagger, one of the first automated pieces of farm equipment, for weighing and measuring the output of a threshing machine. He also operated a paddle wheel steamboat which carried goods from the factory and mills of Parkville to railroad stations on the Portage River. I couldn't find any current information on the population of Parkville, but judging by the number of houses in the area it can be more than 100. The cache is a screw top micro hidden it typical fashion. From the cache site you can see the remnants of on of the mills to the north east.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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