This cache is placed as part of the 2009 Geocaching Adventure, a
geocaching game placed by MiGO members as a tribute to the
Metroparks Geocaching Adventure series. In order to complete the
2009 Geocaching Adventure, you will need to find the 11 caches
hidden in the different Metroparks. For links to all of the cache
web pages
Click Here.
Inside the cover of each Geocache you will find two words. These
are to be placed on the appropriate spaces of a crossword puzzle
found on the Geocaching Adventure 2009 Brochure
found here. We will be holding a geocachers picnic
at Indian Springs Metropark on September 12th. Watch
the Geocaching Adventure
2009 Web site for more details.
History of the Kensington Horse
Barn
In 1850 Issac Crawford and his son Issac Crawford Jr. moved to
Milford from Lincolnshire, England and purchased an 80-acre parcel
of land. In 1856 the Crawfords built a threshing barn. Over the
years the Crawfords continued to improve the property, adding other
barns and out buildings and in 1868 Issac Jr. built his permanent
residence. In 1891, age 93, Issac Crawford passed away and when
Issac Jr. died in 1908 the farm was purchased by Walter Jackson.
Walter Jackson passed away in 1947, so Majorie Jackson Bourns and
husband Louis Bourns moved in with Walter's widow and raised their
family. In the 1990's the Bourns moved off the farm and development
threatened demolition of the barns at the corner of General Motors
and Hickory Ridge Road. In 2001 the Bourns family donated the
threshing barn to Kensington Metropark. Volunteers helped give new
life to the old barn by joining in an old-fashioned barn raising,
relocating the barn at the Kensington Farm Learning Center where it
stands today, used as a horse barn housing a team of draft
horses.
In order to locate the cache, first find the engraved
cobblestones at the entrance to the barn that serve as a memorial
to Kensington's draft horses. Then calculate the coordinates to the
cache using the number of times a letter is engraved in the
cobblestones in the formulae below:
North = Posted north coord - (E * P) + (S * V) - T
West = Posted west coord - (E * T) - (M * A) + Z
This Kensington
Metropark, a part of the Huron-Clinton Metropolitan Authority park
system.
A Metropark Vehicle Entry Permit is required: Annual Permit $20.
Senior Permit $12. Daily Permit $4.
For General information please call 810-227-2752 or
800-47-PARKS. Or visit our website at
www.metroparks.com.
All park rules and regulations apply. Park in parking
lots only. The hours for Kensington Metropark are 6 am to 10 pm
daily. Pets are not allowed in this section of the
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