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Gobble Gobble 2006 LbNA #27448

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:Nov 26, 2006
Location:
City:Morris
County:Grundy
State:Illinois
Boxes:1
Planted by:The Traveling Dudeks
Found by: The Dress Lady
Last found:Jun 2, 2007
Status:FFFFFaa
Last edited:Nov 26, 2006
Gobble Gobble was an idea from our 4 year old daughter. She had both sets of grandparents over for Thanksgiving and was attempting to explain “Litterboxing” to them. We showed our wares and I had the urge to carve but no ideas. Little D wanted me to do a turkey, but I couldn’t find an easy one to do with clip art. So she gave me her paper hand turkey from school. How hard can it be to copy a 4 year olds artwork? Well, harder than I thought. I asked her for a name, she said “Gobble Gobble”, hence the title. She even knew a park to plant, one were we showed her the wild turkeys that roam free, Jugtown.

Jugtown was an unplatted settlement that developed around William White and Charles Walker’s middle nineteenth-century pottery and tile works (variously known as “Goose Lake Stoneware Manufactory and Tile Works” and “White and Company’s Pottery and Tile Works”). This pottery, which was established in 1856 in rural Grundy County near the western edge of what was once Goose Lake, was one of the earliest attempts at industrialized pottery and tile production in Illinois. Unfortunately for its financial backers, this pottery enterprise was unsuccessful, and it ceased production in 1866 and the town was abandoned in 1914.

To visit Jugtown today you will have to go to Goose Lake Prairie State Natural Area. Below are some directions and what the area has to offer.

http://www.dnr.state.il.us/lands/Landmgt/PARKS/I&M/EAST/GOOSE/HOME.htm

To start your journey, enter the Prairie Grove Picnic Area. Park your vehicle where ever possible. It can be crowded on a nice weekend.

Approach the picnic shelter that is the furthest from the playground, and start your hike from the path behind it. During the summer months the grasses will be about 6 feet tall, so it will be like walking through a grass tunnel.

Follow the path as it winds until you come to a “T” and a birdhouse, take a right. Watch for deer, pheasant and wild turkeys. Not to mention all the different birds over head and in the few trees that are here.

You will eventually come to a “Y” in the road, and to your left will notice a birdhouse and a tree missing 2 of its 3 limbs. It has wonderful carved designs from the termites that were once here.

On the backside of this trunk, lift up the wood self, and you will find Gobble, Gobble 2006. Take the bo and walk down on of the paths to trow off any mugglers. The "Y" is a very busy intersection. Please rehid well and fluff the prairie grass when you are done.

Follow the path on your left and you can visit old Jugtown.

No ink pad. You may want to use different colors of ink for the tail feathers like when you were in school.

Dogs are welcomed, but they must be leashed and cleaned up after.

The path is not paved, but level and hard. You can use a stroller on it and possible a wheelchair if it hasn’t rained recently

As usual, a nice little First Finder’s gift is included.