Easter Island Traditional Cache
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You are looking a bison tube with only a logbook at one of my favorite places. Bring your own pen or pencil to sign the logbook. Please be stealthy I saw a police car patrolling speeders after the bend.
Please put this back EXACTLY as you found it and so it doesn't fall out.
Congratulations FTF to: Hoffer15!
Amidst the country charm of UMore – silos, lush grasslands, rolling hills, woodlands, and wild animals – inhabits a curious industrial air. Towering smokestacks and strange concrete structures hint towards the park’s unique history. Maureen Bouchard, of the Rosemount Area Historical Society, spoke at the open house about the site’s past as Gopher Ordnance Works, a United States Army munitions plant built during World War II, in 1942. Following the end of the war, the University submitted a proposal to the War Assets Administration and in 1947, acquired the land for use as a research center to study aerodynamics, among other things. The proposal’s eventual approval made it the largest single expansion in the University’s history, according to John Lauber’s Land in Transition: A History of UMore Park.
The now defunct Gopher Ordnance Plant was originally one of 77 munition facilities built to support the efforts during WWII. The plant’s grounds were originally located on 12,120 acres of farmland that was acquired using eminent domain. This land was originally owned by eighty independent farms. The plant was to produce smokeless gunpowder as well as nitric and sulfuric acid for the war effort.
During the 1940s, the 12,000+ acres housed 16,000 workers and nearly 860 buildings but it is now home to numerous toxic metals and waste, overgrown ruins, quarries and research facilities.
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