Kawashebemagog Traditional Cache
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This
is an easy, historical, roadside geocache. with nearby
fishing, ice-fishing and swimming (although unsupervised!)
opportunities. Muggles are found in the area, so stealth may
be prudent.
In earlier times this lake was known by the Algonkian Indians as
'Kawashebemagog', or the lake of deep waters. Local myths indicate
it may be the deepest in North America. By the 1600s, Iroquoian
tribes had taken control of the lucrative beaver trapping in the
area. Pioneer homesteading followed, only after the first
colonization roads were surveyed in the 1850s from the more fertile
farm lands that lay to the south. The earliest settlers on Halls
Lake included Benjamin and Melissa Trott (Crown Land patent in
1866). They were followed by the Foote, Davis, Cooper, Johnson,
Oliver, Deacon, Welch and Upton families, by 1900. The
'Kawashebemagog' geocache is a one-litre wide-mouthed plastic
bottle, suitably camouflaged, and hidden on an obviously popular
segment of the original Trott Homestead. This portion was severed
from the farm in 1935 when Highway 35 replaced the original
Bobcaygeon Colonization Road to Cedar Narrows (now Dorset). The
Trott Homestead became the Oliver Farm about 1914, and can still be
seen just south-west of this site. Should you wish to try other,
nearby, historically related geocaches; you might consider
'Shield-ten; Settlers-Zero' (GCQ18Y) on the original Bobcaygeon
Colonization Road; 'Cadge this Cache' (GCPNJQ) on an original
Indian portage trail, 'Hawk Lake Log Chute' (GCPNJQ) an original
log-chute, reconstructed in 2005, or the Halls Lake Sawmill
(GCQ7AE).
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
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