CACHE: Located in a cemetery. No night caching even though this is in the fencerow and near the road. Small container with few trades. BYOP. Replace as found so cache can be found by others. Hint is a spoiler, not a hint.
HISTORY: Isaac Newton Jenness was born in New Hampshire 22 August 1827, son of Peter M. Jenness and Mary Hall Jenness. His father was mainly a farmer who dabbled in lumbering and stone. His grandfather served in the Revolutionary War. His parents both died in the 1840's, so around 1846 he came to Michigan. He got word that the Thumb area was under development and settled in Almont, starting in lumbering there originally. He remained in Almont for over a decade but expanded by working in Port Huron and Saint Clair, that's where his success began, but was expanding into Attica by 1851. Nothing was here in present day village of Attica in 1851, not even a house. Everything needed to be built, but he had a vision along with another newcomer, William Williams. Eventually Isaac started a lumber mill on the banks of Elk Lake and built a store and named his settlement Jennessville. He was at one time the largest landowner in Lapeer County, owning more acreage than even Henry Stephens of Stephens Mill, and other speculators like Lucious Lyons, Henry Crapo and locals Hart and White. He started out with a partner and was known as Rogers and Jenness, when Rogers moved on to other territories, Jenness remained and the company became known as I.N. Jenness & Co. As his company grew and he bought up land and also lumber rights from lands surround Lake Pleasant. These logs were floated down a creek from Lake Pleasant to Elk Lake. His products were board lumber, staves, shingles and spars for shipbuilding. One of Jenness' largest buyers early on was a shipbuilder in Scotland. In the decade of 1869 through 1879, Jenness' mills manufactured 137 million feet of lumber out of the Attica area. He continuously employed 100 men in the summer and 300 men in the winter.
His entrepreneurship helped build Attica and gained him high respect in politics, in which he was a Republican and helped establish the Republican party in Jackson, yet he refused any public office. He established the first post office here and an express office, being postmaster for 15 years. The US postal service wouldn't allow two post offices close together, so one had to close. William Williams had his in Williamston, but due to having a town with that name already in Michigan, his post office was named Attica. This created a problem since Jennessville and Attica mail was already being delivered to Isaac's post office, they in the end merged them. The post office was located for many years in the Schirmer Hotel, located where today is an empty lot north of Rowley's store. The hotel was moved to Crossroads Village in Mount Morris.
Jenness, his wife Eliza Ann Nye, daughter of Horatio Nye, married 25 December 1850 in Attica. They had only one known child, who died in infancy. Eliza passed away and Isaac remarried, her name was Mercy A. Nye, some relation of his first wife. They were involved in a buggy accident in 1900, where Mr. Jenness succumbed to his injuries a week later. Mercy passed away in 1932.