Pioneer Trail Park Multi-Cache
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Pioneer Trail Park
(http://www.deltacountymi.org/pages.php?ID=68)
The cache coordinates take you to the cemetery where Mrs. Langley was laid to rest, along with others in the 1800's. Use the cemetery and following listing to solve the cache.
This area was plentiful for wild berries in the 1840's and 1850's. Raspberries could be had in the slashing near a logging road at the mouth of the river below what is now Pioneer Trail Park. Blackberries grew on the high ground that is now called the Gladstone bluff, and blueberries grew in profusion at Sand Point. Flat Rock, first permanent settlement in Delta County, dates back to the early 1830's.
The following information was taken from the Century Book. The entire book can be found at:
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"Flat Rock, first permanent settlement in Delta County, dates back to the early 1830's with the arrival of a fur trader, Louis A. Roberts, and his wife. A man by the name of Chandler built a water-powered mill there about 1836; a steam powered mill was built in 1844 by the Smith brothers, John and Joseph, which was sold to the N. Ludington Co. in 1851. It was this company that owned Sand Point and was to cut the stand of pine timber there beginning in 1852.
Flat Rock was also briefly the center of trade and commerce, of transportation and culture before the founding of Escanaba. From there travelers went northward to Marquette by boat or afoot; lake boats connected the region with other ports and in winter a "stage line" bumped and slid along shore ice to Menominee and Fort Howard.
There was no doctor in the frontier settlement of Flat Rock. Mrs. Langley, wife of the mill superintendent, became seriously ill the summer of 1859. An inscription on one of the headstones in the old cemetery at Pioneer Trail Park fixes the date: "Carrie C., wife of David Langley, died August 12, 1859, aged 29 years, 10 months and 15 days." Surviving besides here husband were three sons, Frank and David, who were old enough to attend school, and George, the baby."
"Her coffin was hand-made of pine boards and covered with black cambric cloth, the inside being lined with white muslin. At the funeral the bearers, four men, carried the casket on a handbarrow or litter, letting it down to rest occasionally. The mourners, possibly fifty to seventy-five people, walking two and two, followed in the procession. At the grave Stillman Moulton read the Episcopal Burial Service for the Dead."
In order to get the coordinates for the final cache, you will use the information found on this page, and from the cemetery markers.
Final stage:
N 45° 4A.BCD W 87° EF.GHI
A. The last digit in the year of James McMonagfe's death.
B. The last digit in the year a man by the name of Chandler built a water-powered mill here.
C. The last digit in the year of Carrie Langley's death.
D. The last digit in the year of James McMonagfe death, plus 2.
E. Carrie Langley's age in years at the time of her death minus 29?
F. The day of Carrie Langley's death minus 8?
G. The last digit in the year of Emogene Banks death.
H. The last digit in the year Sand Point stand of timber was to be cut?
I. The first digit in the year N. Ludington Co. bought the Smith Brothers steam powered mill?
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