Grassy Point II & $1,000,000 tunnel Multi-cache
Grassy Point II & $1,000,000 tunnel
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With troubles from muggles and cache gone missing I decided to make this a multi so all you number hungry cachers can log this one again. It will take you to the million dollar tunnel that is hardly ever used.
I liked the idea of the Strike It Rich cache by the BoondockSaints but didnt get to do it, so here is mine. This cache contains only a log book, pencil and sharpener and lottery scratch off tickets. Please replace the ticket you take with an unscratched ticket and let us know how you did, seems people dont understand what "replace" means.
History of the point:When the Duluth Superior Harbor was originally charted in 1861, William Hearding, the cartographer identified a large thumb of wetland protruding out into the open waters of the estuary as Grassy Point. Then the area was very likely covered with grasses, sedges cattail and many other aquatic plants. What Hearding saw, and what was already known as Grassy Point, was the sunken remains of a sandy, bay-mouth bar that may have once formed the protective sand spit at the head of the St. Louis River Estuary. The current bay-mouth bar is formed by Minnesota and Wisconsin Points. Grassy Point is now some 5 miles from the sandy shores of Lake Superior. Early maps of Duluth document the presence of sawmills at Grassy Point as early as 1890. Lumber was milled here for several decades before the site was abandoned. Tons of sawmill waste (ends, slabs, small pieces, sawdust and woodchips) were left to slowly settle into the wetland and disappear. When the fires of 1918 burned through the region, several ships were known to have been in service at the Grassy Point docks. Six scows, a dredge and three tugboats likely remain sunken near the site. The scows were constructed between 1883 and 1913 and were owned by the Northern Dredge and Dock Company of Duluth. The steam dipper dredge was a vessel called the DULUTH. It was constructed in 1872 and was likely also owned by the Northern Dredge and Dock Company of Duluth.
Additional Hints
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1-fvg qbja
2-Ng gur obggbz bs n ovt bar, #5 bs gurz sebz gur gbc, perrx fvqr.
3-purfg uvtu