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Beaubien Burial Ground Traditional Cache

Hidden : 7/25/2012
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

This is placed across the street from the Beaubien Burial grounds, an area we pass countless times, but never really noticed.  Look north, across the street from GZ. The cache itself is a preform tube (courtesy of Team DarkSeid) and should be a quick park and grab. There WAS a cache here before, not so long ago.

From The History of Dupage County (http://www.dupagehistory.org/dupage_roots/Lisle_13.htm ) website:  To facilitate travel plank roads were built in some places. Southwest Plank Road was ex­tended from Chicago to Naperville by 1851; its Lisle path is now known as Ogden. A toll gate stood in front of Marc Beaubien's Tavern-Inn in western Lisle, a comfortable day's journey from Chicago. Marc had purchased the pro­perty in 1841 from Richard Sweet, and served as innkeeper in Lisle until 1865.

Jean Baptiste Beaubien, Marc's brother, was in command of twenty-five men who came from Ft. Dearborn to Naper Settlement during the Black Hawk War to fight Indians if it became necessary. In 1858 he retired to Beaubien Inn, died in 1863, and is among those buried in the small cemetery east of the build­ing.

Patrick 0'Brien, who came to Lisle in 1863, informed his granddaughter that an Indian burial ground was located on the Keller farm west of Beaubien's land. Joseph Yackley, in a 1916 interview, recalled seeing friendly Indi­ans at Beaubien's Tavern and in "Round Meadow", near where Joy Morton's home later stood.

Enjoy a bit of Lisle history.



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