The cache is not at the posted coordinates! They take you to Victory Over Violence Park, one of several City of Milwaukee "Pocket Parks."
This is a bonus cache for completing the Civil Rights Milwaukee Adventure Lab. To obtain the coordinates for this Bonus Cache, you must first complete the related Adventure Lab.
Victory Over Violence Park
Victory Over Violence Park was created in the 1990s from a vacant lot that had become a magnet for violence and illicit activity. Its creation was championed by the late Jeannetta Simpson-Robinson, cofounder of Career Youth Development (CYD), which was formerly located in a building adjacent to the park. While the park had fallen into disrepair in recent years, the City and local Business Improvement District have been working the past two years to renovate it.
Victory Over Violence Park is intended as a beautiful, safe, and healthy green space to both remember those lost in Milwaukee violence in the past and serve as a place of healing for those currently suffering from trauma.
Adventure Labs and Finding the Bonus Cache
You must complete the Civil Rights Milwaukee Adventure Lab to obtain the coordinates to this cache. The five locations in that Adventure have NO physical caches. At each location, you will receive info about that experience and will have to answer a simple question. For each correct answer, you are credited with the “find” for that Lab.
Geocaching Adventure Lab caches can only be found with the use of a smartphone or tablet using geocaching.com's free Adventure Lab app. Your adventure can begin after downloading the Geocaching Adventure Lab mobile app.
To find the Civil Rights Milwaukee Adventure Labs, click this link: Civil Rights Milwaukee or scan the QR code below with your phone's native QR code scanner (the camera). Both the link and this QR code take you to the Adventure Lab cache page.
The confirmations for each stage of the Adventure Lab will provide you with a portion of the coordinates for this Bonus Cache. You will have the complete coordinates once you successfully complete all five stages of the Adventure Lab. The bonus cache is a camouflaged lock-n-lock box. Please bring your own writing utensil.
Although not required, please feel free to upload your (non spoiler) pictures from your adventure and tell about your experience in your log.
Permission:
The cache location has been approved by the applicable land manager.
Other Civil Rights Milwaukee Geocaches:
You can view my other Civil Rights Milwaukee Geocaches in my online list
Additional Information
For those who are interested in further information on the topics covered in this Adventure Lab, check out the following websites:
Voting Rights - Ezekiel Gillespie:
Ezekiel Gillespie: Milwaukee’s Champion of African-American Voting Rights
Ezekiel Gillespie: The Man Who Wanted to Vote
Gillespie v. Palmer, 20 Wis. 544 (1866)
And for more about the Voting Rights Mural:
Voting Rights Are Human Rights: a Look at How Shepard Fairey Installed Milwaukee’s New Social Justice Mural
Milwaukee’s First African Methodist Episcopal Church:
Encyclopedia of Milwaukee - African Methodist Episcopalians Architecture of Faith - Milwaukee
Architecture of Faith - Milwaukee - African Methodist Episcopalians
St. Mark African Methodist Episcopal Church, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (1869-)
Mabel Raimey:
Mabel Watson Raimey by Melissa Love Koenig
Phoebe Weaver Williams, A Black Woman's Voice: The Story of Mabel Raimey, "Shero", 74 Marq. L. Rev. 345 (1991)
Encyclopedia of Milwaukee - Mabel Raimey
Find a Grave - Mabel Raimey
America’s Black Holocaust Museum:
America’s Black Holocaust Museum (including online galleries)
ABHM Youtube Channel
Wisconsin Black Historical Society Museum:
Wisconsin Black Historical Society Museum
Encyclopedia of Milwaukee: WBHS/M
WBHS/M Facebook Group
WBHS/M Youtube Channel
Background Photo Credit:
Background image: Bronzeville church ladies. Photo courtesy of Wisconsin Black Historical Society.