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Add Location| Owner: | The 5Ms  |
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| Plant date: | Jul 24, 2009 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Paradise |
| County: | Chippewa |
| State: | Michigan |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Found by: | Prince Igor |
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| Last found: | Jun 16, 2021 |
| Status: | aFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFaFF |
| Last edited: | Jul 24, 2009 |
The legend of the Edmund Fitzgerald remains the most mysterious and controversial of all shipwreck tales heard around the Great Lakes. Her story is surpassed in books, film and media only by that of the Titanic. Canadian folksinger Gordon Lightfoot inspired popular interest in this vessel with his 1976 ballad, "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald."
The Edmund Fitzgerald was lost with her entire crew of 29 men on Lake Superior November 10, 1975, 17 miles north-northwest of Whitefish Point, Michigan. Whitefish Point is the site of the Whitefish Point Light Station and Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum. The Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society (GLSHS) has conducted three underwater expeditions to the wreck, 1989, 1994, and 1995.
At the request of family members surviving her crew, Fitzgerald's 200 lb. bronze bell was recovered by the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society on July 4, 1995. This expedition was conducted jointly with the National Geographic Society, Canadian Navy, Sony Corporation, and Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians. The bell is now on display in the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum as a memorial to her lost crew
The Edmund Fitzgerald lis located at:
LAT 46 59.9' N
LON 085 06.6' W
CLUES:
Make your way to the Whitefish Point Light Station. Walk the cement path that passes the Museum where the Edmund Fitzgerald’s bell is housed to the wooden trail for bird watching. Where the wooden path turns right look to your left between the utility pole and the guide wires you will see a path. Walk the path into the wooded area. You will see five birch trees clustered together on the left and two more on the right. Just past the single birch on the right will be a fallen soldier ½ standing and ½ lying down. Where the two meet is the prize you seek.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was lost with her entire crew of 29 men on Lake Superior November 10, 1975, 17 miles north-northwest of Whitefish Point, Michigan. Whitefish Point is the site of the Whitefish Point Light Station and Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum. The Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society (GLSHS) has conducted three underwater expeditions to the wreck, 1989, 1994, and 1995.
At the request of family members surviving her crew, Fitzgerald's 200 lb. bronze bell was recovered by the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society on July 4, 1995. This expedition was conducted jointly with the National Geographic Society, Canadian Navy, Sony Corporation, and Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians. The bell is now on display in the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum as a memorial to her lost crew
The Edmund Fitzgerald lis located at:
LAT 46 59.9' N
LON 085 06.6' W
CLUES:
Make your way to the Whitefish Point Light Station. Walk the cement path that passes the Museum where the Edmund Fitzgerald’s bell is housed to the wooden trail for bird watching. Where the wooden path turns right look to your left between the utility pole and the guide wires you will see a path. Walk the path into the wooded area. You will see five birch trees clustered together on the left and two more on the right. Just past the single birch on the right will be a fallen soldier ½ standing and ½ lying down. Where the two meet is the prize you seek.