SJCC: Nailwort Traditional Geocache

Welcome to Amatol! Amatol was a munitions plant during World War I. A small town was constructed to house the plant workers and families. At one point the population of Amatol was around 5,000 inhabitants. The town had everything from schools to theaters.

The Atlantic City Speedway was built in 1926 on a portion of the former Amatol site at a cost of millions of dollars. The vast project was backed and sponsored by Charles M. Schwab, Marshall R. Ward, H. E. Clark, and S.D. Clark. At a dinner at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia, the invited press was assured that horse racing was not to be a feature of the track. It was pointed out that 1/5 of the U.S. population was located within 150 miles of the speedway. The Jack Prince Construction Company of Oakland, CA, was the contractor. The track was a steeply-banked, 1. 5 mile-long and 50' wide wood oval, and built to handle speeds of 160 MPH. The construction required 4.5 million board feet of lumber, enough to fill 253 railroad cars. The southern hemlock and white Engelmann spruce boards were laid on edge in the construction of the track. A 50' wide dirt track was built as an "apron" on the inner side of the board track. The Atlantic City Motor Speedway Association was incorporated in the state of Delaware in December 1925. The Atlantic City Motor Speedway Association held an exclusive franchise from the American Automobile Association. No other races could be held within 250 miles of the speedway.

Official SJCC Information
The South Jersey Geocachers (SJG) are sponsoring the South Jersey Checkpoint Challenge series. This challenge is intended to take geocachers on a tour of Southern New Jersey (loosely defined as south of I-195) while finding caches placed by members of the SJG. On the tour, we hope you will find South Jersey an interesting and beautiful part of our great state.

Scattered around the area are 26 checkpoint caches and a final challenge cache - South Jersey Checkpoint Challenge (GC1NJDZ). The names of the individual checkpoint caches are based on a phonetic alphabet using plants to represent the diversity of ecosystems that you will encounter on your tour of Southern New Jersey. You may even run into the infamous Jersey Devil while you're there. The 26 checkpoints do not have to be completed in any particular order. See the SJCheckpoint bookmark for the complete list of caches.

Hidden within the 26 checkpoint caches are numbers to be used in determining the coordinates of the final South Jersey Checkpoint Challenge cache – please be sure to note them while you are there.

While there are no special logging requirements for the 26 checkpoint caches, there are special logging requirements for the final challenge cache. Complete information can be found on the South Jersey Checkpoint Challenge (GC1NJDZ) cache page.

This cache is certified South Jersey