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Door County The Prequel LbNA #42912

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:Aug 16, 2008
Location:
City:Gills Rock
County:Door
State:Wisconsin
Boxes:1
Planted by:Paladin will travel
Found by: Sea Buddha and Me
Last found:May 30, 2016
Status:FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
Last edited:Aug 16, 2008
Door County's Death's Door Strait is said to be the site of more shipwrecks than any body of fresh water in the world, and rivals ocean sites for navigational mishaps. It was originally dubbed Porte des Mortes by French navigators.
Some say the French actually played a little politics in naming the strait. They didn't want the English to find their fur trade routes to Wisconsin and surrounding areas, so tried to scare them from sailing through the area.

Yet others attribute the name, in part, to an alleged incident in which a hundred Indians were dashed against these rocks and killed in a sudden storm.
At least one account involving the Potowatomi Indians has the tribe building a ring of campfires on thin ice offshore, to woo their enemies through the strait overnight. The attackers perished on the way.
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First go to the Door County Maritime Museum at Gills Rock. Walk around the museum to the rudder from the City Of Glasgow. Now with the rudder on your left and the city park on your right walk to the back of the park. Walk past the blue spruce trees till you see a Red Maple Tree to your left. Go to the Red Maple and stand so the maple is on your left and the rudder will be behind you. Look forward to
spot the orange diamond shaped trail marker on the tree ahead. Walk to that tree, then follow the trail and count out 70 to 100 steps. The number of steps will depend on whether you walk like a sailor or a Texan. Watch on your right for a stump approximately four feet high on the right side of the trail. Go to the stump and look under Gills Rock to find Door County's Prequel.


Please reseal, replace and re-hide everything carefully so this box is available for future visitors. Since we don’t live in the area, status reports would be greatly
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