Yellowstone Trail - Spencer's McMillian Marsh Traditional Cache

This cache has been archived.

zuma!: I am archiving this one instead of replacing it. I did put out a new McMillian Marsh cache .2 of a mile north of here, so ya can still see a bit of the marsh around Marshfield and Spencer. I chose to remove it due to the comments about the nearby shooting range. The new spot is equally unscenic, but at least ya wont get shot at.

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Hidden : 9/12/2005
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2.5 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

McMillian Marsh is a large marsh just east of Spencer. In this area, highway 13 follows the historic Yellowstone Trail route, running along side the railway.

SPECIAL NOTE: IF YOU SEE COPS WITH GUNS, AVOID HUNTING CACHE. There is an infrequently used shooting range nearby, used by the Spencer constabulary. If you see them doing target practice here, it would be best to postpone your search. I placed the cache so that you would have to walk through the range to get to the cache, so you will know if they are they or not.

This is one of several caches I have placed along the route of the historic Yellowstone Trail. The trail is a historic motor route that went across Wisconsin from 1918 to 1930. The Wisconsin portion of the Yellowstone Trail is 406 miles long, starting at the state line south of Kenosha and going north, and then west to Hudson. The Wisconsin segment is just a part of one of America’s first transcontinental auto routes, a 3,754-mile long road that started in Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts and went to Puget Sound, Washington.

Before there were numbered highways in the United States there were names attached to roads to help motorists navigate from town to town or from county to county. Hailed as being “A Good Road from Plymouth Rock to Puget Sound,” the Yellowstone Trail began as a 25-mile stretch of road near Ipswitch, South Dakota. In October 1912, Mr. J. W. Parmley formed the Yellowstone Trail Association. By 1917 the Yellowstone Trail had grown to become the main auto route for those travelling from the East Coast to Yellowstone National Park and the Pacific Northwest. While the Association did not build roads, it did lobby local governments in towns along the Trail to help promote the fledgling automobile tourism industry by building and maintaining “good roads.” Trail towns paid the Association a small fee or “assessment” to help cover advertising expenses and upkeep of the Trail.

Many towns along the Yellowstone Trail had a representative known as a “Trailman”, whose duties included providing information to travelers and supervising the marking of the Trail with its distinctive yellow circle and arrow signs, yellow painted rocks or painted bands on utility poles. In the 1919 Yellowstone Trail route folder, Trailmen were described as being “…businessmen of standing in their communities, and will always be glad to welcome tourists and serve them in any reasonable manner.”

More information on the Yellowstone Trail, including maps can be found at
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