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Mile Marker 45 - Shire Town Frederick
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N 39° 24.844' W 077° 24.511' |
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Frederick, Maryland 21701 United States Near By Caches
Hidden On: 20 Apr 2007
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I have been thinking of how to provide a Mile Marker cache at this location for some time. Now that the Carrol Creek project is completed more nearby area is available for hides. When redlights asked for volunteers to place caches in the Shire Town series, I thought I could kill two birds with one stone.
You can find other Shire Town caches at geocaching.com by searching on that name. You can find other Mile Marker caches (and learn more about the Mile Markers) by searching on... "Mile Marker". Many of these are subscriber only. You will need to know what a Mile Marker is in order to identify the first stage of the cache. In parts of New England, they are known as a “shire town”, but most of us know them as “county seats.” In the United States, counties administer state or provincial law at the local level as part of the decentralization of state authority. So a county is an administrative division of a state and has no sovereign jurisdiction of its own. The county seat is an administrative center for that county. The first petition to form this new county was entered into legislation in 1739. Benjamin Tasker, a former President of the Governors Council of Maryland, delivered the petition. This same Benjamin Tasker was given the land grant on which Fredericktown was laid out. Frederick County was created in 1748 from parts of Prince George's County and Baltimore County. In 1776, Frederick County was divided into three parts. The westernmost portion became Washington County, named after George Washington, the easternmost portion became Montgomery County, named after another Revolutionary War general, Richard Montgomery. The central portion remained Frederick County. In 1837 a part of Frederick County was combined with a part of Baltimore County to form Carroll County. The current extents of Frederick County are largely defined by the Mason and Dixon line and the Potomac River to the North and South respectively and the South Mountain ridge and Parr's ridge to the West and East respectively. Parr's ridge separates the highland and lowland portions of the Piedmont plateau in which most of Frederick County sets. Frederick County was quickly settled after March of 1732 when a proclamation declared special land prices and taxes for settlers. A large part of the settlers of the land were Palatines from Germany spreading south from Pennsylvania. A group was called the "Irish" by the locals and the history books were actually Scots/Irish who were also known as the Ulster Scots. The Scots/Irish migrated towards the highlands of Frederick County and Washington County, Maryland. In small groups, they also lived in the German communities of Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia. To this day Frederick County has strong ties to other German and Irish communities. To seek this cache you must find the Mile 45 Marker on the Old National Pike in downtown Frederic, MD within 200 feet of the coordinates listed for this cache. You must measure the *exact* coordinates and then make a projection. Project a waypoint 500 feet on a bearing of 210 degrees referenced to true North. The final stage is a small plastic container (not micro) painted to blend in with the surroundings. The hide itself is only a 1 difficulty, but I am only giving approximate coordinates for the start so you will have to find the mile marker and then make a measurement for the start of the projection. When I rechecked the coordinates, I found that they would vary widely ~70 ft (urban canyon). But you should still have little trouble finding this cache as there are not many places for it to hide. The "new" Carol Creek is not especially conducive to hides of anything other than micros, but I managed to find a spot for a small cache. It is big enough for small TBs and pretty much any geocoins. I just don't like hiding micros with no stash. Potentially very high muggle activity may make the cache retrival and replacement quite hard. Early morning is likely the best time, but I found that there are different types of people in the area at nearly any time of day. So this might be best hunted in foul weather. |
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11 Nov 2009 by
DudleyGrunt
(Finds: 7 Score: 17.5)
(Hidden: 6 Score: 12.5)
Open Log: Personal use only
Crosslisted.
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19 Jul 2009 by
sfcchaz
(Finds: 23 Score: 67.5)
(Hidden: 0 Score: 0)
Open Log: Personal use only
Made the trip out early to avoid muggles and the like on this beautiful day. Found the marker and made the projection. Found the cache in the first place I looked. Not too bad since I can only project in 'miles' with my GPSr. TNLN TFTC
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06 May 2007 by
THE DAM TROLLS
(Finds: 13 Score: 51.5)
(Hidden: 0 Score: 0)
Open Log: Unrestricted
Tried finding this one way, but had to do it another. Put in the projection and we got to within 20' of the cache, found it easily once close. Fun to meet some other cachers here, sorry we did not get their names.
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