This
cache is located in the town of Breckenridge. Since we have been
geocaching we pass thru this town a lot and have looked for a
place to put a cache with no luck, until now. We think we have
now found a spot! Although we don't care for micros because we
cache with kids who like to trade, in some spots they are all
you can get away with. So, we'll try one here.
In 1867 goods for Gratiot and Isabella Counties were shipped from
Detroit to St. Johns, then hauled by teams of horses to outlying
settlements. In an effort to lessen the exorbitant transportation
costs the citizens of Saginaw and Gratiot elected to build a
thirty-two-mile long plank road connecting Saginaw and St. Louis.
In 1869 the state legislature chose Saginaw lumbermen Ammi Wright
and William Glasby to construct the road. Wright served as
president of the Gratiot Plank Road Company and Glasby as its
contractor. By 1870 farmers, merchants and a stagecoach line
traveled daily between Saginaw and St. Louis. The road later became
M-46.
This cache will take you near a reproduction of that
road.
You are
looking for a keyholder with only a log book and a small
pencil.
You can park within 20 feet of the cache.