In 1848, William Plocker, a Dutch immigrant, constructed a tavern and stagecoach stop near the southern end of the Village of Fairwater at the junction of Wisconsin's Military Road and the road north from Watertown to capitalize on stagecoach traffic between Milwaukee, Watertown, and points to the north. For more than twenty years, the inn was a popular resting place for travelers.
In the 1870's, William Plocker sold his farm and inn to the Gottlieb Stelter family, German immigrants to the area in the 1840's. The Stelters made the inn their home until 1916, when they moved it to make way for a new farmhouse. The inn served the family as a storage building until the 1940's, when it was demolished. Of the original structure, only the parlor wing was saved, and it served as a storage building on the Stelter farm. In May of 2007, the remaining parlor wing of the inn was moved into the Village of Fairwater to ensure that the remaining structure is kept preserved. William Plocker died in Boston in 1878 and is buried in the Fairwater cemetery.
*** This cache is "NOT" hidden at the listed coordinates!! To find this cache, you’ll first need to physically locate the present site where the Plocker's parlor wing is currently being displayed and then solve the puzzle below using information gathered at that site about William Plocker. ***
N43° 4A.BCD W088° 5C.EBB
He was born in London, England on May 2E, 181C.
On November 1, 1875, he sold his inn and B25 acres of land.
In 183D – 18A0, he was a collector of canal tolls.