Where is Black Hawk? LbNA #30341 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | Four Crazy Eights  |
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| Plant date: | Apr 24, 2007 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Burlington |
| County: | Des Moines |
| State: | Iowa |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Found by: | Weeble Boo and mama |
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| Last found: | May 4, 2008 |
| Status: | FFFFFaa |
| Last edited: | Apr 24, 2007 |
Rough terrain. Do not come when muddy. Mosquito repellent would be a good idea. There may also be poison ivy.
Chief Black Hawk was born in 1767 and was a Sauk. By age fifteen he had become "brave". To become "brave" he needed to kill or injure an enemy in battle. By age forty-five he had killed thirty enemies. He went against Sauk customs and never drank "fire water" and only married one woman. Most successful warriors married several women. Black Hawk fought to keep his land. Winnebago and Potawatomi warriors joined Black Hawk and they raided villages and farms through northern Il. and southern WI. On Aug. 2, 1832, in what became known as the Bad Axe Massacre, the soldiers killed dozens of the Sauk. Of the 500 Sauk with Black Hawk only about 150 survived. The Black Hawk War took the lives of 72 whites and between 450 and 600 Native Americans. Black Hawk was forced to surrender and was paraded through cities like a captured animal. The public, however, greeted him, "as a brave, romantic symbol of the wild frontier" and treated him like a hero. He was admired among Iowa settlers. He was often invited to the teritorial capital to attend sessions of the legislature. His last public appearance was July 4, 1837. Black Hawk died Oct. 3, 1837. His wife survived him. In his last public appearance he said:" A few summers ago, I was fighting against you. I did wrong, perhaps, but that is past. It is buried. Let it be forgotten. Rock river was beautiful country. I loved my towns, my cornfields, and the home of my people. It is yours now. Keep it as we did." (www.madison.k12.wi.us/blackhawk/bio.htm)
These are known as the sewer trails. ( You get used to the smell!)
Located in Dankwardt Park in Burlington.
Enter the road between the two black walls.
Walk on the sidewalk opposite the playground.
The path to the right is the one you seek.
Black Hawk seeks the Mississippi River.
Walk the balance beam but beware if you fall. It could land you at GRMC.
What sound do you hear? Is there a roar above your ears? If not, the sky above you is deserted.
Cross the road and go beside the concrete trail.
Your search goes below where the water falls.
Black Hawk sleeps in a tight spot among the boulders.
Chief Black Hawk was born in 1767 and was a Sauk. By age fifteen he had become "brave". To become "brave" he needed to kill or injure an enemy in battle. By age forty-five he had killed thirty enemies. He went against Sauk customs and never drank "fire water" and only married one woman. Most successful warriors married several women. Black Hawk fought to keep his land. Winnebago and Potawatomi warriors joined Black Hawk and they raided villages and farms through northern Il. and southern WI. On Aug. 2, 1832, in what became known as the Bad Axe Massacre, the soldiers killed dozens of the Sauk. Of the 500 Sauk with Black Hawk only about 150 survived. The Black Hawk War took the lives of 72 whites and between 450 and 600 Native Americans. Black Hawk was forced to surrender and was paraded through cities like a captured animal. The public, however, greeted him, "as a brave, romantic symbol of the wild frontier" and treated him like a hero. He was admired among Iowa settlers. He was often invited to the teritorial capital to attend sessions of the legislature. His last public appearance was July 4, 1837. Black Hawk died Oct. 3, 1837. His wife survived him. In his last public appearance he said:" A few summers ago, I was fighting against you. I did wrong, perhaps, but that is past. It is buried. Let it be forgotten. Rock river was beautiful country. I loved my towns, my cornfields, and the home of my people. It is yours now. Keep it as we did." (www.madison.k12.wi.us/blackhawk/bio.htm)
These are known as the sewer trails. ( You get used to the smell!)
Located in Dankwardt Park in Burlington.
Enter the road between the two black walls.
Walk on the sidewalk opposite the playground.
The path to the right is the one you seek.
Black Hawk seeks the Mississippi River.
Walk the balance beam but beware if you fall. It could land you at GRMC.
What sound do you hear? Is there a roar above your ears? If not, the sky above you is deserted.
Cross the road and go beside the concrete trail.
Your search goes below where the water falls.
Black Hawk sleeps in a tight spot among the boulders.