Woodlawn Museum Traditional Cache
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Located along the walking trails at Woodlawn Museum. Enter the trail system behind the museum and immediately bear left. Go by the pond then watch for two pillars on the left. Go through those pillars and follow your GPS. You're looking for a medium sized screw-top container. If it's summertime be sure to check out the museum, the gardens behind, and their collection of old carriages. Fascinating tours are given regularly. Happy hunting!
Woodlawn Museum (also known as the “Black House”) is one of Ellsworth’s most interesting and historical locations. Woodlawn sits on the crest of a hill overlooking the city of Ellsworth and is surrounded by majestic pine, spruce, and hemlock trees. Visitors may tour the museum, stroll through formal gardens, picnic on lush lawns, explore trails where the Blacks' horses once cantered, browse the gift shop or investigate the carriage and sleigh collections. A visit to Woodlawn Museum offers the chance to step into the American past!
Woodlawn, part of the Ellsworth landscape for 175 years, was once home to three generations of the Black family and is now an historic house museum and public park. It is both an architectural gem and a cultural statement. Built between 1824 and 1827 by Colonel John Black, this stately brick house, based on a published design by American architect Asher Benjamin, contains the original family furnishings of one of Eastern Maine's most distinguished families. Willed to the Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations by the Colonel's grandson, George Nixon Black, Jr., Woodlawn has been open to the public since 1930. This beautiful home, its original collections, its outbuildings, and its grounds reveal much about changing economic, social and domestic conditions in the century between the 1820s and 1920s. Moreover, the family story is a fascinating one, from Colonel Black who amassed a fortune through land and timber dealings to his grandson, a wealthy Boston gentleman, who built the famed North Shore Shingle Style cottage "Kragside" and bequeathed a major portion of his estate to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
To find out more, go to: www.woodlawnmuseum.com
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