This cache is now a
small round container. It can hold a few geo-coins. Please make
sure the top is screwed on correctly before
replacing.
Updated
Coordinates: N 42° 32.888 W 072° 36.561
[Pretty much
the same as the published coordinates.]
About Historic
Deerfield
Situated on a
330-year-old, mile long street, Historic Deerfield preserves and
interprets the architecture, artifacts and lifestyle of a
prosperous early New England town. The extraordinary houses with
their antique furnishings, along with the exhibition galleries and
collections, comprise some of the finest examples of publicly
available Americana in the United States.
Historic Deerfield was
incorporated in 1952, to sustain the work of Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Flynt, of Greenwich, Connecticut. In 1936, the Flynts enrolled
their son at Deerfield Academy, a nationally known college prep
school founded in 1797, located in the center village of Deerfield,
Massachusetts. The Flynts were amazed at the remarkable, but
fragile, state of preservation of the old village. With the
encouragement of Deerfield Academy's Headmaster, Frank Boyden, they
began to purchase the old houses along the street to carefully
restore them.
Today, 13 museum
houses, built between 1730 and 1850, and the Flynt Center of Early
New England Life display more than 25,000 objects made or used in
America between 1650 and 1850. It is the quality of this
collection, the meticulously preserved 18th and 19th century houses
in which it is displayed, and the old village itself that make
Historic Deerfield the New England that all travellers hope to
find. We were given permission to hide a series of caches here for
the Geocaching Tournament.
The parking
coordinates given below are for Historic Deerfield. Parking closer
to the cache is available near the track.