GC56EWT Meridian Line (Traditional Cache) in Michigan, United States created by Geocacher-Enough

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Hidden : 6/6/2014

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Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

This cache was hidden as part of the
2014 Are You Geocacher Enough? Road Rally

This cache is hidden not far from the Michigan Meridian line.

The Michigan meridian is the principal meridian (or north-south line) used as a reference in the Michigan Survey, the survey of the U.S. state of Michigan in the early 19th century. It is located at 84 degrees, 21 minutes and 53 seconds west longitude at its northern terminus at Sault Ste. Marie, and varies very little from that line down the length of the state.

The meridian was surveyed by Benjamin Hough in April 1815. The meridian was selected because it formed one of the principal boundary lines defined in the Treaty of Detroit in 1807, which was the first large cession of land by Native American peoples to the United States in the Michigan Territory. In that treaty, the boundary line was described as running due north from the mouth of the Auglaize River on the Maumee River, which was the site of Fort Defiance (now Defiance, Ohio)
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