The Military Road Traditional Cache
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Daughters of the American Revolution Roadside Marker and a place to park.
Cache is a small magnetic that will be an easy find.
I have run across sections of the Military Road on numerous occasions and this is a section on the Marquette/Columbia county line. It is also Amish country, you will probably see Amish farms and buggies in the area of this cache.
The military Road in Wisconsin connected Ft. Howard in Green Bay to Ft Winnebago in Portage and Ft Crawford at Prairie du Chien. The following is from "The History of Wisconsin" about the road.
Specifications called for the road to be 30 feet wide, with all trees less than 12 inches wide to be cut to within six inches of the ground and those over 12 inches wide to be cut to within one-foot of the ground. These stumps were left in the ground to rot, rather than removed from the right-of-way, and posed a hazard to anyone on the road who might collide with them and tip their wagon. Bridges were to be constructed across substantial streams, and smaller streams would be filled in with heavy logs and topped with a handrail. Causeways constructed of poles and brush bundles (corduroy) were laid across the road in marshy and wet areas and then covered with dirt from the side ditches that had been dug.
Enjoy this stop and grab.
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