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Cache:
This is a Daytime Only cache. Absolutely NO Night Caching!
This cache was hidden as part of the tRails Meandering North-Easterly Geocache Rail Tour, presented by Silent Whistles, the Manistee County Historical Museum and the Crawford County Historical Society and Museum. Record the milepost value contained on and/or in each cache container on the Ticket to Manistee form. See the To Claim a Prize section below for specific tour requirements. See the Resources section below for links to the Ticket to Manistee, Tour Cache List, and a Recommended Driving Route Map.
You are looking for a well hidden but not difficult soda preform in the Omena Cemetery. Please keep it well hidden.
Charles Conn Michigan Railroad Collection, Clarke Historical Library, Central Michigan University.
1907 or earlier boxcar used as a makeshift depot.
Omena:
In 1852, Peter Dougherty, a Presbyterian missionary minister moved from Old Mission with a band of Ottawa and Chippewa indians to what would become known as Omena. Dougherty called the place New Mission. He built a church and school. The name Omena aledgedly came from the indian expression o-me-nah which Dougherty often used as a response when told something by the indians. The meaning of the word is Is that so?. The church, dedicated in 1858, still stands and is one of the oldest historical landmarks in Northern Michigan. The settlement also opened a post office on February 9th, 1858, with Dougherty as postmaster.
Charles Conn Michigan Railroad Collection, Clarke Historical Library, Central Michigan University.
Later passenger shelter at Omena. Was this after a more traditional depot?.
When the Traverse City, Leelanau and Manistique Railroad built through town in 1903, a makeshift depot was made from an old box car. Based on railroad blueprints of the area, a real depot erected (or at least planned) at the crossing of Tatch Road near Kalchik Road, by the Sunset Lodge (now a Bed and Breakfast). At some point, the shelter shown in the photo above was used. For several years, the train would also stop at the old Clover Resort, about a mile south of town.
Sources:
- Manistee and Northeastern Railroad, michiganrailroads.com (RRHX)
- M&NE History, Trainweb.org
- Manistee and Northeastern Railroad (Wikipedia)
- Pere Marquette Historical Society: M&NE
- Manistee County Historical Museum
- Crawford County Historical Society
- History of Manistee and Northeastern Railway Company, Erwin F. Olsen © 1956 E.F. Olsen, UofM Digital Library and HathiTrust.
- Atlas of Leelanau County, Michigan, C.E. Ferris, 1900, UofM Digital Library
- Traverse Area District Library
- Omena History
- Annual Report of the Commissioner of Railroads of the State of Michigan, for years 1889-1906, Google Books
- Michigan State Gazetteer and Business Directory, Google Books
- Michigan Place Names, Walter Romig, © 1986 Wayne State University Press
- Michigan Railroads and Railroad Companies, Graydon M. Meints © 1992, Michigan State University Press
- Michigan Railroad Lines, Graydon M. Meints © 2005, Michigan State University Press
- Michigan Railroad Atlas, Volumes 1-4, Graydon M. Meints © 2017, Michigan State University Libraries
- In the Pines, An Atlas of Michigan Logging Railroads, James S. Hannum, M.D., © 2017 Hannum House Publications
To claim a prize:
- Download and print the Ticket to Manistee (see Resources) and take it with you caching.
- As an aide, download and print the RMNE Recommended Route Map (see Resources).
- Follow the instructions on that form to find the required number and combination of the hides.
- All hides in the tour are identified on the Ticket to Manistee and in the bookmark list.
- Look for Mile Post values on the cache labels and log books to record on the form.
- Please do not record the Mile Post values in your on-line log or they will be deleted.
- Please do not post photos showing the Mile Post values with your on-line log.
- Please do not post photos showing answers to field puzzles with your on-line log.
- Each individual GC account holder making the find must sign and date the paper log book in the cache with their GC account name. No group logs please.
- Send the completed form via US Mail to the address on the form or scan and send a digital copy using GC email or the GC message center. Each GC account holder must send in a form. One prize per completed form. One prize per GC Account. Multiple forms per mailing is encouraged.
Once your answers have been verified, the prize will be sent back to you via US Mail to the address you provide on the form, while supplies last. One hundred prizes have been minted..
Resources:
Contributors:
I would like to express my special thanks to the following people and organizations who have helped either directly or indirectly with this project:
- Charles Conn for allowing me to use of his collection of photographs at the Clarke Historical Library. Mr. Conn thought this would be a good non-profit way to share some history.
- Mark Fedder and the Manistee County Historical Museum for being gracious cohosts.
- Mike Hankwitz and Charles Showalter, both of whom provided a portion of their digital collection, both private and that of the Manistee County Historical Museum, in support of this project.
- The Crawford County Historical Society for being gracious cohosts and providing materials.
- The Traverse City District Library, for help with and blessing to use their digital library.
- Dr. James Hannum, for sharing research, opinions and guidance along the right of way.
- James Harlow for sharing many items out of his collection and his memories.
- Dale Berry and michiganrailroads.com, always a source of great information.
- Graydon Meints, for his hard work and research which would have taken years to do on my own.
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