Name ________________________
Heritage Canyon Scavenger Hunt
By Mrs. Slonneger
Here is a
Scavenger Hunt for you – let’s learn
about Heritage Canyon, windmills and Dutch heritage before your field trip.
City of Fulton, Illinois
Attractions – Heritage Canyon
1. What is Heritage Canyon? It is a 12-acre wooded structure nature walk dotted with
buildings that take the visitor back to the ___1800’s______.
2. Mid 1800s – 1954: It was a ___limestone___
_____quarry___ where rock was crushed for field fertilizer, roadbeds,
wing dams and levees.
3. Who bought the quarry in 1967? ___Harold and Thelma
Wierenga___
_______________________________________________________
4. When are Dutch Days held? _____First Friday,
Saturday, &______
________Sunday in May___________________________________
5. Look through More Pictures of Heritage Canyon. Describe the picture you thought was the
most interesting. _______student’s
choice_______
_________________________________________________________
City of Fulton, Illinois
Attractions – Dutch Days
6. When did the first permanent Dutch settler arrive at
what was to become the City of Fulton?
_____1835___________
7. How many families were there in 1872? ______59 ___________.
This grew to ___198___ families in only 19 years.
8. How did the Dutch Days festival begin? _____In 1974
the Community Christian School Auxiliary organized the first authentic Dutch
Dinner. From this the entire festival
has developed.______________________
9. Fulton’s newest attraction is the addition of a new
Dutch Windmill called _____De Immigrant______________________.
10. When was the windmill dedicated? ____May 6, 2000
during Fulton’s Dutch Days Festival_____________________________________
11. Where was the windmill constructed? ____by the
flood control dike, right in the heart of the city_______________________________________
12. Where was the windmill made? ___The windmill was
engineered and pre-fabricated in the Netherlands ____________________________________
13. How did the windmill get to this country? ___it was
shipped to this country in containers by ship, rail, and truck transportation__________
14. The windmill is a fully operational windmill. What does that mean? ______that the entire
head can turn and the sails turn by wind power__
_______________________________________________________
15. What does the windmill manufacture? ___a variety of
flours_____
_______________________________________________________
Click on “The construction of the
internal gears 2000-2001” at the top of the web page. Next click on The dedication of
the grinding stones during Dutch Days 2001.
16. How many volunteer millers gathered at “De Immigrant”
on Wednesday May 2, 2001 to inaugurate the millstones? ___18 ______
17. What was the first grain used to test the millstones?
___Buckwheat_____
18. Where did the millers receive their miller training?
__the Netherlands__
19. Along with windmills, wooden shoes are one of the most
recognizable artifacts of Dutch heritage.
Wooden shoes are still worn by workers in ____Holland _______, or __________the
Netherlands___________.
20. What is another name for wooden shoes? ____Clogs__________
21. The opening that your foot goes in is called the ____mouth_____
Click on Sueters.
Then click on General Info.
Discover where the Sueters Wooden Shoe Factory is located. Here is a map to
show you where The Netherlands is located in Europe.
Next click on Education
and follow the red arrows reading the description of each picture to discover
how wooden shoes are made.
22. What is the capital of The Netherlands? ______Amsterdam__________
23. What is the seat of government of The
Netherlands? _______________
_____________The Hague _____________________________
24. Windmills are used chiefly to provide power to ___pump
water_____, _____grind grain______, or ______generate electric
power_________.
25. By the 1100s, windmills had spread to Europe. About this time, inventors discovered that
windmills produced more power if the sails or blades turned on a horizontal
shaft. This discovery eventually led to
the development of Dutch windmills.
These windmills were widely used in the Netherlands to _____drain
water from the land ______________
________________and to ______mill grain _____________.
Kids’
Stuff – Read about windmills, and then make your own model of a windmil
CIA Factbook
– the Netherlands: Browse statistics on the Dutch geography, people,
government, economy, transportation, communication, etc.
