Blue Creek Conservation Area Traditional Cache

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cheech gang: Not a popular enough cache to bother with any more. Thanks to those who visited.

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Hidden : 3/19/2013
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Welcome to The Blue Creek Conservation Area. This is the newest Metroparks area to be opened to the public, open for daily use, 7 a.m. until dark. Visit the new area on the east side of Schadel Road, next to the historic hog barn. Located on the edge of the Oak Openings region, Blue Creek has a parking lot and a one-mile loop trail leading to glacial grooves, a pond, a wetland and an oak savanna. Fishing is permitted in the pond. A temporary restroom is located in the parking lot.

Blue Creek, one of the newest additions to the Metroparks, is steeped in history, dating to the late 1700s when the Ottawa, Chippewa, Wyandot and Potawatomi people lived, hunted and farmed in the area. The property was the site of limestone quarries in the mid to late 1800s. Stone was quarried from the land to build many of the buildings on the property. The quarry is now a large pond.

In 1917, the city of Toledo bought the land to build a prison farm and in 1918 the City of Toledo established the workhouse “to provide wholesome surroundings for the City’s adult delinquents and to provide profitable employment and to be self sustainable”.

The land at Blue Creek has been farmed since 1843. The White barn on the west side of the road is the most notable landmark with over twenty thousand square feet of storage space with a gambrel roof and plank frame. It was built in the 1920’s primarily for grain storage but also served as the facility to board Toledo Police horses. Most of the food crops went to feed the work-house population but they also supplied hay and oats to the Toledo Zoo.

Blue Creek is operated in partnership with the Metroparks, Village of Whitehouse, Nature's Nursery, and the Lucas Soil and Water Conservation District. In addition to the small park area, Blue Creek is home to a wildlife rehabilitation center, a youth recreation complex, demonstration farm fields, and the Metroparks run a native seed nursery and provide scheduled education programs to area children and adults. Features of the Conservation Area include a constructed wetland by the University of Toledo and a wetland reserve made possible by a grant from the Natural Resource Conservation Service.



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