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Kingston-upon-Hull Traditional Cache

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MikeOtt: Area changed and more restrictive rules for wildlife area plus loks like missing so time to archive.

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Hidden : 2/25/2013
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

DO NOT GO FOR THIS CACHE DURING HUNTING SEASON (DEC 1 TO MARCH 31) EXCEPT ON SUNDAY WHEN THERE IS NO HUNTING. It is not part of Wildlife area, but you have to drive right through the wildlife area to access this property owned by Delaware Cultural Affairs

Town Point shows on the map as a park out in the marshes, but its also known as Logan's Lane and Kingston-upon-Hull, a historic home located near the Dickenson Plantation. The home was built in three sections, with the earliest dated to about 1677. The oldest section is a brick, three bay structure consisting of two rooms and a center hall. A one-story, brick kitchen wing was added to the original section at an early date. A five-bay frame second story was added early in the 19th century.

The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. Kingston-upon-Hull is important as an example of the best quality of early eighteenth-century Delaware brickwork. Historically, the house is associated with the Dickinson family.

Unfortunately today you will see a fenced off boarded up house in disrepair that would appear to be in the middle of nowhere.

As you drive down the gravel/packed sand road in the Ted Harvey wildlife area, notice the tree row on the left. These are Osage-Orange trees that were commonly used for farm windbreak tree rows. In part they got their name from the orange colored roots and wood. You will not know the tree by its official name, Maclura pomifera(I must have been doing too many trison78 caches!), but you may know it by the name I used a a child, mostly refering to the big round dimpled green balls, the "Monkey Brains Tree"

To find this cache you will have to get up close and personal with a mostly fallen Osage-Orange

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

fgnaq qverpgyl haqre gur Bfntr-Benatr gerr ebbgonyy naq ernpu bhg naq hc

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)