SQ / MLT - Bell Branch Mystery Cache
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THE CACHE IS NOT AT THE POSTED COORD'S. SOLVE THE PUZZLE TO GET TO THE FINAL LOCATION!
The SQ in the cache name above signifies Spirit Quest, a project to distinguish those caches that are set in cemeteries or memorial gardens. Please be respectful of the area, and observe their rules and posted hours, Michigan law states that you are only permitted to visit cemeteries dawn to dusk through out the state unless other hours are posted.
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.
One of the oldest villages that preceded present day Detroit, Bell Branch was a village in the township of Bucklin (formerly Pekin) which was organized in 1818, 15 years before it became Redford Township. Records of Bell Branch in 1831 describe a Baptist Church, now called Redford Baptist Church, organized at what was then Twelfth Street (Fenkell) and Bell Branch Road (Telegraph). A school and a Methodist Church which served the area after 1835 also carried the name. The village took its name from the Bell Branch of the Rouge River, named after early settler Israel Bell. The Rouge ran through the east end of the village and Bell Branch through the west end. For many years, it also was known as Redford Center because of its location near the center of Redford Township. It was an early station on the Detroit Lansing and Lake Michigan Railroad, but the tracks into town were so narrow that they were closed because of dangerous sparks. There were also glue and chair factories in this area sometime after 1860. It officially was called Bell Branch when Charles Pierce opened the post office there in 1877. Population in 1899 was 200. The name is preserved in historic Bell Branch (Redford) Cemetery, on Telegraph between Fenkell and McNichols. This area is now part of the Brightmoor neighborhood and eastern Redford Township. Annexed by Detroit in 1926.
Above text taken from the book Detroit Beginnings: Early Villages and Old Neighborhoods by Gene Scott.
NOW FOR THE CACHE, THE POSTED COORDS WILL TAKE YOU TO THE GRAVESITE OF THE FIRST SCHOOL TEACHER OF REDFORD. TO GET TO THE FINAL SOLVE THE FOLLOWING PUZZLE:
The year listed as born minus 1178 will equal the new North coords.
The year listed as died minus 1445 will equal the new West coords.
The final is NOT located in the cemetery.
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