The Treasure Hunt begins. We will be posting clues on this web site with a slight delay from when they are released in the wild! You will be able to move from clue to clue more quickly by picking up the complete instructions and clue sheets at one of our Sponsor's stores.
This year's 19th Ward Treasure Hunt involves determining digits based on locations from Clues 1-4 which will provide the combination to a lock on a Treasure Box whose location is given in Clue 5.
Clue 1:- Down the street from where the crush of wounded Union blue once lay,
- A monument to this Congressman and Judge still stands today.
- Part of a system that is thirty-five hundred strong,
- This location is the Treasure Hunt starting point for a journey hard and long.
- As Kansas City boasts of 12th Street & Vine, and 42nd and Broadway in NYC
- Our neighborhood has intersections that stand out in history.
- At this juncture Hitler’s effigy is burned on VE Day;
- And still marks our commitment to peace across from where we save or spend our pay.
- Piccadilly Circus isn’t as far as we might think
- From belov’d Hunt’s Hardware, the West End was just a blink.
- In the middle of the valley this “factory of dreams”
- Was entered in with ticket price and filled with many scenes.
- This Titanic shipping line’s disaster made the books;
- Its namesake’s home was the club and claim of Micah Brooks.
- Close by the home where Mackey put a part of old St. Pat’s,
- This historic site – both good and bad – still earns a tip of the hat.
- Eastman’s gift is clear to see – it’s such a lovely view,
- Susan B. spent quite a bit and opened it up, too.
- We do not ask you walk their path: for this refuge is our aim.
- For homeless children loved and reared, journey’s end and end of game.