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    The case board

    Every mystery the hunt has posted, and where each one stands. Crack one, and your name goes here and in the next post.

    10open0solvedNobody is ahead of you yet.

    New here? Case 10 is a practice case with the records already laid out. Read it, decide which certificate you trust, then try case 1, where two county histories tell one story twice. Keep the hunter’s worksheet open beside you.

    Last updated 18 October 2026.
    No.The questionOpenedStatus
    The first hall Cassopolis
    1Did the joke lodge of 1846 ever have a real charter? Even the man who first wrote its story wasn’t sure.15 Oct 2026Open
    2In 1867 the old hotel where the lodge danced was hauled across the village and turned into a mill. Where did it end up?15 Oct 2026Open
    The second hall A lake with no stream in and no stream out. Its page is behind the first hall’s last door. Find that door, and seven cases are yours to work.
    3Who was the settler who gave away forty acres of lakefront?17 Oct 2026Open
    4Where is the 1831 parchment deed today?17 Oct 2026Open
    5Where does the lake’s water really come from?17 Oct 2026Open
    6Where did the boulders on the shore go?17 Oct 2026Open
    7What powered the flour mill on a lake with no stream, and where did it stand?17 Oct 2026Open
    8Who was the doctor who took a bone home and kept it?17 Oct 2026Open
    9What became of that bone, and of everything else taken from the grave?17 Oct 2026Open
    From the desk A practice case: try the method before you take on a hall
    10One letter, two certificates: which middle initial is right?17 Oct 2026Open

    Post answers in the comments on Facebook, with the page you found them on. The rules above still apply: everything here is solved on paper.

    What counts as solved

    A case is solved when an answer is posted with the record it came from: the book or document, the page, and a link if there is one. The desk checks the page. If it says what you say it says, your name goes on the board, the case is marked Solved with your source beside it, and the next post names you. An answer without the page stays a guess, however right it is.

    The 1860 wall map of Cass, Van Buren and Berrien counties, Michigan: hand-colored townships in a grid, with town plans and engraved pictures of houses and farms around the border.
    The 1860 wall map of Cass, Van Buren and Berrien counties, where the hunt began. Walk every inch of it in the map room, where the county’s township sheets of about 1928 now hang beside it.
    Today’s streets around Broadway and State Street in Cassopolis, drawn as plain lines. BroadwayState Street
    The same blocks on the 1860 town plan of Cassopolis, with HOTEL, Court House and Jail engraved near the corner of Broadway and State.
    The hotel corner, then and now. Slide to see the 1860 plan give way to today’s streets. The ring marks where the engraver wrote HOTEL. The 1860 plan was matched to nineteen street corners that still carry their old names, and on average the old corners land within about five yards of today’s. Explore the whole town.

    How the hunt works The hunt: your hunter’s card