Flack & Bean Line LbNA #28170
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Jan 7, 2007 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Moline |
| County: | Rock Island |
| State: | Illinois |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | Diamonds inthe Rough  |
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| Found by: | lasermom |
| Last found: | Sep 23, 2007 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFFFFa |
| Last edited: | Jan 7, 2007 |
The Flack and Bean line (and a GREAT View!)
This box will require a compass and has a lot of compass work in it.
Make sure the Red arrow on the dial of the compass lines up with the red north arrow before beginning each orientation. As always in our area - a pace is two walking steps.
Find the corner of 11th Avenue and 7th street Moline. Turn onto 11th avenue and proceed to the Deere-Wiman Home. Park as best you can and proceed on foot to the Main Entry Pillars. Proceed in a North to North East direction towards the back of the main house. You will pass a Cucumber Tree on your right, continue on through a portico and find the "shaggy" tree that looks like cousin "IT" from the Munsters.
Stand with your back on the North side of the tree and face the Mississippi river. Proceed 24 paces on 320 degrees. Here you will find the very cool plaque marking the Flack and Bean line. A most interesting read.
Due East at 90 degrees, view a flagpole - go there.
Stand on the side where the rope is secured. Find the red, granite bolder at 370 degrees. Go there. From the bolder you can see a Church Steeple at 20 degrees, the I-74 bridge is at 40 degrees and another pine tree at 320 degrees. Go to and climb under the branches of that pine. Line up the red, granite bolder on your right and a black lampost on your left. Don't bump you head on this treasure tied to the pine branch.
Please Return the box to its limb.
The northern boundary of Illinois as prescribed in the Ordinance of 1787 was an east and west line from the southern tip of Lake Michigan at approximately 41 degrees, 37 minutes passing through this region to the Mississippi River. - To read more about Illinois boundary - go here.
There is another marker like this one in Lincoln Park in Rock Island put up by the Daughters of the American Revolution.
To actually SEE the 1787 ordinance go here.
This box will require a compass and has a lot of compass work in it.
Make sure the Red arrow on the dial of the compass lines up with the red north arrow before beginning each orientation. As always in our area - a pace is two walking steps.
Find the corner of 11th Avenue and 7th street Moline. Turn onto 11th avenue and proceed to the Deere-Wiman Home. Park as best you can and proceed on foot to the Main Entry Pillars. Proceed in a North to North East direction towards the back of the main house. You will pass a Cucumber Tree on your right, continue on through a portico and find the "shaggy" tree that looks like cousin "IT" from the Munsters.
Stand with your back on the North side of the tree and face the Mississippi river. Proceed 24 paces on 320 degrees. Here you will find the very cool plaque marking the Flack and Bean line. A most interesting read.
Due East at 90 degrees, view a flagpole - go there.
Stand on the side where the rope is secured. Find the red, granite bolder at 370 degrees. Go there. From the bolder you can see a Church Steeple at 20 degrees, the I-74 bridge is at 40 degrees and another pine tree at 320 degrees. Go to and climb under the branches of that pine. Line up the red, granite bolder on your right and a black lampost on your left. Don't bump you head on this treasure tied to the pine branch.
Please Return the box to its limb.
The northern boundary of Illinois as prescribed in the Ordinance of 1787 was an east and west line from the southern tip of Lake Michigan at approximately 41 degrees, 37 minutes passing through this region to the Mississippi River. - To read more about Illinois boundary - go here.
There is another marker like this one in Lincoln Park in Rock Island put up by the Daughters of the American Revolution.
To actually SEE the 1787 ordinance go here.