WOOP WOOP Muggle Alert!
Perfect for newbies and kids of all ages! This residential cache is located on our own property and is not well suited as a drive up; best suited to sleuth as a pedestrian which will also allow you to check out some great architecture along historic King Street West (on-street parking close by on First Street). You are looking for a small/medium-sized container located at ground level. Pencil included with logbook. Feel free to take something awesome from the cache as long as you're willing to leave something of equal awesomeness behind. Watch for Muggles; be sneaky and be quick!
This Century home was constructed in 1901 of limestone quarried near Kingston, Ontario (the same stone used to build the many buildings at Queen's University and many other historic buildings in Kingston, which was Canada's original Capital City). The stone was brought to Chatham as ballast in large supply and trades ships that were once common sights on the Thames River and McGregor's Creek at the turn of the century, bringing goods to Chatham, and returning to their port of origin with goods from Chatham such as lumber which was in abundance here at the time. The interior of the home is original, and an added feature is a heavy leaded glass door that originated in the estate home of Henry Ford in Detroit, Michigan. The original homeowner of this house was Alfred Westman, a prominent manufacturer and merchant of metal implements and goods and inventor who held several patents. He and his family had a live-in servant named Phoebe Alright and their youngest of four children, named Harry, sadly died here at the age of 2 from unknown causes, and may, to this day, still play in his room at the top of the staircase, and look out at the passers-by on King Street West from his window, on the second floor, furthest to the left.