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.
On September 20, 1818 the Wyandot Indians ceded their territory
in Brownstown and Maguagua townships to the United States
government in the Treaty of St. Mary's. The treaty provided
replacement grants of the Wyandot Reserve Territory on the River
Huron. Some of the signers of the treaty were:Lewis Cass, Ronesass
or Honas, Haunsiaugh Boyer, Ronaess or Racer, and Ronioness or
Joseph. The Wyandot Indians lived on this reservation until 1842
when the Treaty of Upper Sandusky ceded The Huron Reserve territory
back to the United States Government. They agreed to be relocated
onto an estimated 150,000 acres of land to the west of the
Mississippi River. It was a journey fraught with illness,
skirmishes and tragedy...but that is another story.
The area became farm land with several farms along both sides of
the Huron River. In the early 1920s Henry Ford established one of
his many “Village industry mills” in Flat Rock. The dam is still
there. Ford owned several hundred acres of woods and floodplain up
stream from the dam.
In the early 1950s the Huron-Clinton Metropolitan Authority
purchased the land. In 1975 Oakwoods Metropark was opened. All of
Oakwoods and two sections of Willow Metropark are on land that was
set aside for the Wyandot Reserve Territory in the 1818 treaty.
Walking to the cache you will be on what used to be South Huron
River Road as it goes west high above the river. You are encouraged
to notice the large oak tree near the cache which was here when
Wyandot Indians called this home. While you are in the park be sure
to visit the Nature Center and especially look at the mural in the
lobby that depicts this history.
This cache is located
within Oakwoods Metropark, a part of the Huron-Clinton Metropolitan
Authority park system.
A Metropark Vehicle Entry Permit is required: Annual Permit $25.
Senior Permit $15. Daily Permit $5.
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 Oakwoods Metropark are 8:00 AM to
Dusk.
Pets are allowed in this section of the
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