This geocache was placed with the intention of being found for the 2026 Discover L&A Geocaching Mega Event on August 15th, 2025.
Murder in Napanee 1882
Maggie Howie, a 17-year old maid at the Tichborne Hotel in Napanee was brutally murdered at the hotel, on March 28, 1882.
The murderer was 23 year old Michael Lee, her former fiancee, and a hostler at the hotel.
Lee was apprehended shortly after the murder, stood trial, and was sentenced to hang.
He was later found to be insane, and he spent his life in the Kingston Penitentiary, until he died in 1901 at the age of 44.
The Napanee Express building later stood on the spot where the murder took place, and Maggie's ghost was said to haunt the office of the newspaper.
The Tichborne Hotel on the North Side of Dundas Street, Napanee.
To find the geocache, go to the posted coordinates. You will be standing at the corner of Dundas St. and John St. The location of the former Tichborne Hotel. Project a waypoint with a bearing of 79° with a distance of 236 meters.