The Gandydancer LbNA #26949
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Nov 6, 2006 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Centuria |
| County: | Polk |
| State: | Wisconsin |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | ArtGekko  |
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| Found by: | Storm Chasers |
| Last found: | Jun 24, 2012 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFFFF |
| Last edited: | Nov 6, 2006 |
This box is located on the 98-mile recreational trail that follows the old Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie railroad grade from St. Croix Falls north to Superior. This grade was commercially used for approximately 100 years starting in the late 1880s. Upon abandonment, part of the corridor was purchased by Burnett County and the State of Wisconsin for use as a recreational trail.
Railroad history is remembered in the name "Gandy Dancer." Hand crews, who built and maintained the tracks, used railroad tools manufactured by the Chicago-based Gandy Tool Company. Often the crews used vocal and mechanical cadences to synchronize the swinging of their hand tools or the movement of their feet. Hence the name "Gandy Dancer" reminds us of the past crews who built the railroads.
Clues:
From the park in Centuria:
A little west then northward ho!
Through the long tree tunnel
You’ll go over the giant tube (no need to mind the gap)
Keep going and soon you’ll see Pinus resinosa on your left
From that point walk 30 steps north
Look left
Find four of one in a square, not a row, up against the fence
The box is at its base.
PLEASE rehide carefully.
NOTE: this box was placed in November after leaves were down. I make no guarantee as to whether the area is poison-ivy free!
Railroad history is remembered in the name "Gandy Dancer." Hand crews, who built and maintained the tracks, used railroad tools manufactured by the Chicago-based Gandy Tool Company. Often the crews used vocal and mechanical cadences to synchronize the swinging of their hand tools or the movement of their feet. Hence the name "Gandy Dancer" reminds us of the past crews who built the railroads.
Clues:
From the park in Centuria:
A little west then northward ho!
Through the long tree tunnel
You’ll go over the giant tube (no need to mind the gap)
Keep going and soon you’ll see Pinus resinosa on your left
From that point walk 30 steps north
Look left
Find four of one in a square, not a row, up against the fence
The box is at its base.
PLEASE rehide carefully.
NOTE: this box was placed in November after leaves were down. I make no guarantee as to whether the area is poison-ivy free!