Log Cabin Backyard Traditional Cache

This cache is placed with the permission and at the request of the Green Lake Conference.

This Log House is the only structure on the grounds that pre-date the Lawsons. It was built in the 1840s by Chris Briswold for his family. It is now a “working museum” staffed by summer volunteers who coordinate campfires, quilting, and candle-making. Private tours can be arranged.

The exact cache site is best enter by following the power line path that is just west of the Log Cabin site. There are some deer runs that are also helpful.

Abbreviated history of the Green Lake Conference Center:

In the late 1800s Victor and Jessie Lawson of Chicago developed the elaborate Lone Tree Farm. Victor helped found the Associated Press and became Publisher of the

Chicago Daily News newspaper at age 25; at age 38 he became the owner. He married Jessie Strong Bradley in 1880. He met her in the church choir and they honeymooned at Green Lake. They loved to escape the city life of Chicago in Green Lake.

They purchased the first parcel of land in 1888 after Jessie and her friends took shelter from a storm in the area now called Lone Tree Point. It was the start of Jessie’s project that in time grew to an 1,100 acre farm. She coordinated the design and development of roads, stone walls, bridges and buildings, and oversaw the farm operation.