SwtM - St. Ignace Mission Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 5/5/2016
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:


You will be able to follow a mowed path until you are quite close to the cache. We camp in St. Ignace every year and walking to this cache reminded us a bit of going "Up North".


Date Designated: October 9, 1960
Location: St. Ignace (Mackinac County)		 The St. Ignace Mission is located in a municipal park known as Marquette Mission Park. It was the site of a mission established by Père Jacques Marquette, and the site of his grave in 1677. A second mission was established at a different site in 1837, and the chapel was moved here in 1954. The second mission chapel is the oldest Catholic church in Michigan and Wisconsin. The St. Ignace Mission was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1956, and was declared a U.S. National Historic Landmarks in 1960, one of the earliest sites recognized. The mission chapel serves as the Museum of Ojibwa Culture.

The first St. Ignace mission remained open until 1705, when it was abandoned and burned. It was reopened in 1712, and operated on the north shore of the Straits until 1741, when it was relocated to the south shore. With the relocation of the mission, the exact location of Marquette's chapel was lost.

In 1837, a second mission at St. Ignace was constructed about a mile south of the site of the first mission. In 1877, the site of the first mission was accidentally discovered. Excavations at the site confirmed that it matched the historical description of first mission. A marble statue was erected at the site in the early 20th century, and the area was designated a city park to commemorate Père Marquette. The use of the second mission chapel was discontinued in 1905, when services moved to the newly constructed St. Ignatius Loyola Church.

The second mission chapel remained unused until 1926, when it was purchased and restored. The church was adapted as a historical museum displaying artifacts from early St. Ignace, and was operated by the Knights of Columbus. In 1954, the chapel was moved from its previous location at State and Portage to the site of the first mission at State and Marquette, where it has remained. More modern archaeological investigations have been carried out at the mission site and the contemporaneous nearby Petun village, particularly in the early 1970s and 1980s.

In the late 1980s, the chapel was converted for use as the Museum of Ojibwa Culture, which remains its purpose as of 2015. Exhibits focus on Ojibwa cultural values and subsistence methods, as well as the effects that the migration of Huron and Odawa peoples had in the area. The chapel was restored in 2008-2010, including restoration of the windows, replacement of some 5% of the clapboards, and repainting inside and out.

Visit 14 geocaches in the SwtM series. At each geocache collect a letter and number combination. Insert them into the phrase FiTS LIKe A GlOVE. Use the coordinates from the phrase to find the final geocache and become a Mitten Master
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Quincy Mining Company Norton Mound Group Lightship "Huron"
Windemere USS Silversides 2016 Mitten Master

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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