Welcome to Pulaski Park-another area I spent a lot of time in while growing up in Cudahy. This 3-stage multi-cache is completely contained within the park. The posted coordinates are for the first stage. Please be sure to put it back exactly how you found so it doesn't get muggled again. Milwaukee County Parks Permit #448.
***Congratulations to BladeRunner2ofus on the FTF***
Please note:
All coordinates begin the same: N42 56.xxx W87 51.xxx.
Stage 1—Is an actual container, not just a marker.
The Final is now back in the original spot. We'll see how long it lasts. METAL IS YOUR FRIEND - (MAGNETIC RETRIEVE).
While one could certainly find all three stages in the winter, discovery with a few inches of snow cover will prove to be a little more difficult.
About the park:
Named for Casimir Pulaski (see below), this 15.9 acre park boasts 2 baseball diamonds, 2 wooded picnic sites (1 with a shelter) available for reservation, a wading pool and a “Tot Lot” play area. Bathrooms are located within the Park Building, and a monument with the likeness of Casimir Pulaski is located just West of the Park Building.
Casimir Pulaski-Father of the American Cavalry:
Kazimierz (Casimir) Pulaski was born March 6, 1745 (some sources state 1747, as does the memorial, but 1745 is actually correct. Also, some sources state March 4 as his day of birth) in Warka, Poland (37 miles South of Warsaw). His father, Count Jozef Pulaski, was a nobleman who was an advocatus (lawyer) at the Crown Tribunal (Poland's highest appeals court) and the Starost (Administrative Official) of Warka.
Casimir and his father took part in the 1764 election of the new Polish monarch, Stanisław II August (AKA Stanisław August Poniatowski). However, their support of him soon faded. In December 1767, Casimir and his father became involved with the Bar Confederation, which saw King Stanisław as a Russian puppet and sought to curtail Russia's hegemony over the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Russian forces stationed in Poland actively opposed the Confederation, and subsequently, Casimir became one of the Bar Confederation's leading military commanders while fighting both politically and militarily against Russian domination of the Commonwealth.
When the Bar Confederation failed (1772), Casimir fled to Germany. While in exile, he was stripped of all titles and sentenced to death in absentia. He then traveled to Paris where he met Benjamin Franklin, who persuaded him to support the colonies against England in the American Revolution. Casimir, impressed with the ideals of a new nation struggling to be free, volunteered his services. Franklin wrote to George Washington describing the young Pole as. "...an officer renowned throughout Europe for the courage and bravery he displayed in defense of his country's freedom."
Casimir arrived at Marblehead, Massachusetts (near Boston) on July 23, 1777. After his arrival, he wrote to Washington, "I came here, where freedom is being defended, to serve it, and to live or die for it." Later in 1777, he traveled to Philadelphia where he met General Washington, Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army. However, Washington could not grant him a commission—that needed to come from congress, so he spent then next several months traveling between wherever Washington was and US Congress in Philadelphia trying to get a commission. Prior to getting his commission, on September 11, 1777, he had his first US military engagement at Brandywine, where he came to the aid of Washington's forces and distinguished himself as a brilliant military tactician. For his efforts, Congress finally appointed him Brigadier-General in charge of Four Horse Brigades. At the Battle of Germantown, Casimir’s knowledge of warfare again assisted General Washington and his men in securing victory for American forces.
In 1778, through Washington's intervention, Congress approved the establishment of the Cavalry and put Casimir Pulaski at its head. Casimir, who became known as the "Father of the American Cavalry", demanded much of his men and trained them in tried and tested cavalry tactics, many of which he used in his fight for freedom in Poland. He often used his own personal finances, when allocations from Congress were scarce, in order to assure his forces of the finest equipment and personal safety.
Casimir Pulaski and his Legion were then ordered to defend Little Egg Harbor in New Jersey and Minisink on the Delaware River; they then proceeded south to Charleston, South Carolina. On October 9, 1779, during the Battle of Savannah, General Pulaski commanded the whole cavalry, both French and American. While attempting to rally fleeing French forces during a cavalry charge on horseback, Casimir fell to the ground, mortally wounded by a grapeshot cannon blast. Pulaski was carried from the battlefield and taken aboard the privateer merchant brigantine Wasp under the command of Captain Samuel Bulfinch. Pulaski never regained consciousness and died two days later on October 11, 1779, at age 34.