MLT - Masson Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 3/2/2013
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: not chosen (not chosen)

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Geocache Description:


The MLT is Michigan Lost Towns.

Be sure to check out other MLT caches at http://www.losttownscacheseries.com/index.html

Seeing as these towns are LOST, we thought of them as "LOST IN SPACE" so as Space Cadets we decided to turn them into caches.


This pre-1900 hamlet on the Michigan Central Railroad's Grand Trunk line northwest of the village of North Detroit (Norris) was started as a township which split from Hamtramck Township. It had a post office until 1912. Henry Ford's big auto assembly plant in Highland Park was booming and Detroit was busy absorbing the rest of the areas adjoining that city and Hamtramck. This place was named for George Mason (with one 's'), one of it's largest landholders, who also was a Metropolitan Police Commissioner in 1882. He became Chief Engineer for the Great Western Railroad of Canada, supervising all railroads west of Lake St. Clair and Port Huron. The Masson area today, near Seven Mile and the Chrysler Freeway, is a mostly Arabic community.  It was annexed by Detroit in 1916.

Above text taken from the book Detroit Beginnings: Early Villages and Old Neighborhoods by Gene Scott.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Orarngu

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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