This cache is hidden with permission of the owner of the adjoining property. You don’t need to leave the sidewalk to find it, and you should feel free to say hi if there’s someone in the yard.
DO NOT DISTURB BRICKS to find this cache. It won't help you find it, and it will upset the owner of the wall who was kind enough to let me hide it here. Thanks!
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Northeast Minneapolis (and towns due north of us) feature Avenues named after our country's presidents. Some of them anyway. I've decided to make a series based on their lives, but I absolutely refuse to look anything up. So... I advise you not to use this for your term paper.
Several interesting facts about James Madison
Author of the Constitution, namesake of Wisconsin’s state capital, and president, but what the history books remember him for was that he was the president when the British burned down the White House. He wasn’t around at the time and the British tried to claim it was because someone left an iron plugged in, but Madison was able to point out that the White House didn’t have electricity, so the British had to admit that yeah, they had intentionally torched the place.
The Madisons were devastated. They had lost everything in the fire and GoFundMe hadn’t been invented yet. First Lady Dolley Madison took the advice of friend and political ally of her husband, James Howard (more on him in the next cache) and launched a line of “snacke cakes” to help rebuild. It turned out to be a national craze. Knock-offs abounded: “Hostess” was clearly a riff on Dolley’s reputation (their original slogan “The first ladies’ choice!” was a giveaway). And when Madison’s rival, James Monroe began selling snacke cakes under the name “Little Deborah” after his daughter, the gloves came off. The Snacke Cake Wars, as they became known, drove a polarizing wedge right through 1810s politics. Also Americans gained a lot of weight (“the Madison 15” was a thing).
Tired of the constant battle, the Madisons sold their share in the bakery conglomerate and went into the entertainment business, founding Madison Square Garden in New York. Eventually they retired to the wilds of what is now Wisconsin, where the state capitol was built over their elaborate, butter-cream-filled tomb.
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Congrats to Guardrail10 for the FTF!