How to find Peoria Landmark #164 in 7 easy steps.
1. Drive down this gravel road just off of Lorentz Ave near the water works and park under the McCluggage Bridge.
2. Find a small path in the brush which will lead to you to this opening in the fence.
3. Walk south down this private road.
4. Hang a left at the cess-pool.
5. Find this gate and go through it.
6. Walk down this path through the woods.
7. Continue under the forest canopy towards the river.
You will eventually find this oddity perched on a small hill at the water’s edge. The stairway leads down to a sandy beach:
August 12th, 2007 at 10:06 am
[...] Walking directions: How to find Peoria Landmark 164 in 7 easy steps. [...]
August 12th, 2007 at 11:15 am
You are so on a list at homeland security now.
August 12th, 2007 at 11:34 am
Umm…yeah…7 easy steps…and a cess-pool? Sounds lovely.
August 12th, 2007 at 12:03 pm
Hmmm….picture number 4 becomes NTPL #169. We know WHERE it is but WHAT is it and WHAT did it do? Looks too far from the river to be river related. See no train tracks. If you turn the wheel, does it drain the cesspool?
August 12th, 2007 at 12:20 pm
[...] Per Chef Kevin’s suggestion. [...]
August 12th, 2007 at 1:02 pm
Is that the main well? A bunch of us from high school used to hang out down there and go exploring, but that was way before it made the historic registry.
August 12th, 2007 at 2:01 pm
No. I won’t go find that landmark. And you can’t make me. Especially in this heat, with undoubtedly a slew of poison ivy around there.
*Floyd hates poison ivy.
August 12th, 2007 at 5:54 pm
I know of at least two persons looking for a benchmark who did not get beyond step one last year before the local constabulary suggested strongly that they get back in their car and not come back. Something about national security.
August 12th, 2007 at 9:17 pm
This could have just as easily been titled, “How to find a secluded spot to dump dead bodies in 7 easy steps.”
I don’t even want to know how you happened to find this.
August 13th, 2007 at 7:16 am
Raoul: As well as a number of important utilities that have critical facilities down there…OY!
August 13th, 2007 at 8:07 am
Now who says *I* went down there.
August 14th, 2007 at 11:18 am
Just make sure that the words Jihad and terrorist and attack and the like never show up on your blog and the government computers will most likely not flag you for a cavity search. Oops too late, now spread em.
August 15th, 2007 at 2:56 pm
Yeah, that looks like a great place to get beat about the head and chest by a hobo wielding a half-full bottle of Thunderbird or Cisco.
Plus the poison ivy thing. After driving a 3-wheeler into a field of poison ivy over the weekend and covering the left side of my body with it, I’m doing everything I can to stay away from that nasty stuff.