Passaic River Traditional Cache
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Passaic River Park, Summit NJ. Mostly dirt trail, may have to cross a small stream or two.
Container is a large drink cooler. Placed an award ribbon, glasses case, tennis ball, glow sticks, cow pencil and note pad.
Many people have commented about the shells scattered about this area. You can find them all along the Passaic river. This is due to the "pearl rush" started in 1857. In that year, Jacob Quackenbush found a record setting, pink, 93 grain (23 carat) fresh water pearl in Notch Brook near Patterson NJ. He sold it to Tiffany & Co for $1500. Tiffany sent it to a Paris gem dealer where Empress Eugenie, consort to Napoleon III, bought it for an undisclosed sum. It was named the "Queen Pearl" after her.
You can see both clam and oyster shells piled along the side of the Passaic River. My son and I brought home a few live clams and put them in the fish tank where they continued to grow.
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