GC15MYE Pigeon Hill (Traditional Cache) in Massachusetts, United States created by ThatcherRoad

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A cache by ThatcherRoad Message this owner

Hidden : 9/3/2007

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The cache is at the top of Pigeon Hill, at the end of Landmark Ln. There is a water tank nearby which may throw off the GPS reading.

Pigeon Hill is one of the highest points on Rockport and Cape Ann. When the leaves are off the trees, it affords a view from Ipswitch Bay to Maine. When leaving Pigeon Hill take a right on Drumlin Road for a nice view of Rockport. Drive slowly as it doesn't last long! You should also visit the nearby Paper House (visit link) .

From Copeland & Rogers, "The Saga of Cape Ann":
Pigeon Cove got its name, according to tradition, from a disaster which overtook flocks of wild pigeons migrating from Maine and New Hampshire to Cape Ann on their annual pilgrimage to the south. The pigeons were caught offshore in a storm which was so severe that many of them became exhausted and could not reach land. They fell into the sea and the little cove where their bodies were washed ashore in great numbers henceforth was called "Pigeon Cove." That slaughter must have occurred soon after the first settlers came to Cape Ann, because Pigeon Cove is one of the oldest place names on the Cape.

A short distance back from the shore at Pigeon Cove stands Pigeon Hill, which is especially noteworthy from a geological standpoint. Pigeon Hill is a drumlin. Whereas all the other hills around Cape Ann, with one exception, are composed of ledge or boulders, Pigeon Hill is a compact mass of clay. The other exception is the hill on Hog Island which rises out of the Essex marshes. Hog Island also is a drumlin.

Pigeon Hill is about two hundred feet high and mostly symmetrical in form. The clay of which it was formed presumably was part of a large mass of that material left on the surface of the earth hereabouts when the ice sheet of the first glacial period melted away. During the interval of thousands of years between the first and second glacial periods, the clay deposit was eroded by rivers and the sea, and when the second ice sheet came to cover the area, it wore away still more of the clay deposit. But here and there it left a rounded hill of that material, known as a drumlin. Shaler (Nathaniel S. Shaler, The Geology of Cape Ann MA) states that Pigeon Hill is a remarkably good example of this type of geological formation.

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