Jack's Back! Traditional Geocache
aeasmmikey: Very sorry ...finally got back to this cache and realized it was gone. Sorry for any inconvenience. We plan another one for this beautiful park in the near future.
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This cache, placed by my 10-year-old son, Jack, replaces his original cache in this location, Toys R Us. This one is a cinch -- take the kids, the dog, no ticks, no poison ivy. Enjoy!
Tucked into a tiny crook of the Delaware River is Roebling Memorial Park, located in Hamilton on Spring Lake, an arm of the Trenton-Hamilton Marsh System. Sometimes there is a bar across the short road to the site...if the bar is across simply park at the top and walk the .10 miles to the bottom. Nice scenery, especially at sunset.
Cache is an 8" round clear Tupperware container with a blue lid. This is a children's cache -- hidden by my 10-year and full of kid's stuff! Take a toy, leave a toy!
Located southeast of Trenton in Hamilton Township, the 1,250 acre Hamilton/Trenton Marsh is the northernmost freshwater tidal marsh on the Delaware River. The marsh includes both tidal and non-tidal marshland, forested swamp and upland and second-growth forest. Ponds, creeks, the Delaware & Raritan Canal and the Delaware River are all connected by this extensive waterway.
This diverse habitat supports an astonishing 550 species of plants, more then 230 species of birds and many mammals, amphibians and reptiles, including many rare and endangered species.
Ecologically the marsh plays many roles. It contains floodwaters, consumes pollutants like nitrogen and phosphorous and provides food for plants and animals in the entire Delaware estuary. This wetland is as ecologically productive as a tropical rainforest.
The boundaries of the marsh nearly coincide with those of the Abbott Farm National Historic Landmark, the largest-known early Native American Middle Woodland village site in the Mid-Atlantic, where artifacts dating back more than 6,000 years have been found.
In the mid 1800s the Delaware & Raritan Canal was built along the marsh, and mules towed canal boats laden with coal from Pennsylvania to New York.
During that same century, a man-mide dike gathered gurgling water from the natural springs and created the lake now known as Spring Lake as part of the White City Amusement Park. This major amusement park attracted people from throughout the region, and the remains of the ornate steps that linked the trolley stop at the top of the bluff to the park below are still visible today.
In the 1950s more than 200 acres were deeded to Mercer County and the John A. Roebling Memorial Park was established.
In more recent history the marsh has seen more significant alterations. It is surrounded by industrial facilites, and now a major highway is being built through the middle, crossing its many waterways and making it visible to more people than ever before.
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