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 ______________.
2. Mid 1800s – 1954: It was a _____________
________________ where rock was crushed for field fertilizer, roadbeds, wing
dams and levees.
3. Who bought the quarry in 1967? ____________________________
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4. When are Dutch Days held?
_________________________________
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5. Look through More Pictures of Heritage Canyon. Describe the picture you thought was the
most interesting.
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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?
_____________________
7. How many families were there in 1872? ________________________. This grew to ___________ families in only 19
years.
8. How did the Dutch Days festival begin? ________________________
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9. Fulton’s newest attraction is the addition of a new
Dutch Windmill called ________________________________.
10. When was the windmill dedicated?
__________________________
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11. Where was the windmill constructed?
________________________
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12. Where was the windmill made?
_____________________________
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13. How did the windmill get to this country?
_____________________
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14. The windmill is a fully operational windmill. What does that mean?
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15. What does the windmill manufacture? ________________________
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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? _____________
17. What was the first grain used to test the millstones?
________________
18. Where did the millers receive their miller training?
________________
19. Along with windmills, wooden shoes are one of the most
recognizable artifacts of Dutch heritage.
Wooden shoes are still worn by workers in __________________, or
__________________________________.
20. What is another name for wooden shoes?
______________________
21. The opening that your foot goes in is called the
__________________
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? ___________________________
23. What is the seat of government of The
Netherlands? _______________
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24. Windmills are used chiefly to provide power to
________________, ____________________, or ________________________.
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
__________________________________________
________________and to ___________________________________.
Kids’
Stuff – Read about windmills, and then make your own model of a windmill
CIA Factbook
– the Netherlands: Browse statistics on the Dutch geography, people,
government, economy, transportation, communication, etc.
