HNY17 Growing Together Multi-Cache

The cache is NOT located at the posted coordinates.

To locate the Final Location, take a Projection of 132° for 196 feet.

This cache was placed by my spouse, CITOcacher, who passed away in December of 2021 .

This 15-ton marble sculpture was unveiled in June of 2010
The city says that after the "Growing Together" statue is unwrapped Friday afternoon, residents will be encouraged to join a weekend effort to clean up Rouge Park and the Rouge River.
The sculpture was inspired by growth in the area near the park and Cody High School. The marble was quarried in Dorset Mountain in Vermont.
It is one of several community art projects supported by the Skillman, Kresge and JPMorgan Chase foundations.
Artist Larry Halbert says the piece expresses an effort "to raise hope and continue to grow together as a community."

River Rouge Park is bounded, roughly, by the CSX Railroad on the North, by Outer Drive, West Parkway and Parkland on the West; West Warren on the South and Trinity and Burt Road on the East. It is located on the far west side of Detroit.

In the 1920s, the City of Detroit paid $1.3 million to purchase land from six farmers at the western edge of the city to be used for River Rouge Park. It now contains 1,184 acres, which means that it is 40 percent larger than New York City’s Central Park. The Rouge River flows for more than two miles through this green and lovely park. At least 15 acres have been restored to native prairie. This park contains an 18-hole golf course, 14 regulation diamonds, including the Hank Aaron and Aurelio Rodriguez baseball fields, 12 playgrounds, 11 tennis courts, eight miles of bicycle trails, including one used by the Michigan Mountain Biking Association, 200 picnic tables, a driving range, an area for scout groups to camp and the large Alex Jefferson Model Airplane Field. The Brennon Pools are a major feature. There are two Olympic-sized pools side by side and a smaller pool. This athletic facility is located near the intersection of Plymouth and Outer Drive.

The Rouge Park pools had another roll in the history of the city. The 1956 United States' tryouts for the Olympic team were held here in the pools that Albert Kahn designed in the 1920s. The city of Detroit sought to host the 1968 summer Olympics. There was a very spirited and sometimes hostile competition between Detroit and Los Angeles since the U. S. Olympic Committee could nominate only one potential host city. Detroit won that competition. In the summer of 1963, the International Olympic group met in Germany to select the host city for the 1968 competition. Four cities sought the award: Buneos Aries, Detroit, Lyon and Mexico City. W hen the final vote was taken, Detroit lost to Mexico City by one vote.

Compared to many urban parks, this one is rather underdeveloped. There are few statues or sculptures. The police station is a modest, functional building. The City of Detroit began to build this park in the 1920s, but then the Depression of the 1930s precluded the city making investments in the 1,184 acres. During the early 1940s, the Arsenal of Democracy devoted its efforts to winning World War II. Then, after the war, the city’s population began to decline and issues other than park development took center stage. As the city sunk into debt in the Twentieth First Century, it could no longer afford to maintain the Brennon pools. They were abandoned by the city in 2010. In 2014, the Michigan state legislature and the Lear Corporation appropriated funds to restore the pool to their glory. In the summer of 2014, the restored pools were officially opened when the Republican leader of the state senate jumped into the pools to symbolize some of a revival for this great park in Detroit. Fortunately, there is now an active Friends of Rouge Park organization promoting the development of this potentially great urban park.

Information from www.Detroit1701.org Detroit The History and Future of the Motor City