This cache is part of the Emmet County History Quest Geo-Trail. When discovering the historic places in Emmet County as you travel from cache to cache, you will need to answer a specific question on your passport. Information and the passport can be downloaded from the Emmet County web site http://www.emmetcounty.org/geocache/
Once you have completed 20 of the caches in this tour, take your passport to Emmet County Building, Suite 178 or mail the passport to Beth Piehl, Emmet County Building, Suite 178, 200 Division St., Petoskey, MI 49770 to receive a collectable souvenir tag for this series.
The Mackinaw Heritage Village re-creates the period from 1880 through 1917, a period of unparalleled changes in lighting, transportation, communication, housing, health care, and nearly every other aspect of the Straits area living. It also reflects an era from which some are still living, a precious few buildings are still standing, and stories told by parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents abound.
Structures currently include an 1880's one-room school from the community of Freedom, a Mackinaw City pest (pestilence) house from the same era, the sawmill that cut timbers for the locks at Sault Ste. Marie, an 1890's hewn log farmhouse, a tarpaper work shack, a replication of the Stimson homestead, a vintage base ball field, an artifacts storage building, church, and community gardens.