Historic Boylan Heights Traditional Cache

This cache has been archived.

NCreviewer: As there's been no cache to find for months, I'm archiving it to keep it from continually showing up in search lists, and to prevent it from blocking other cache placements. If you wish to repair/replace the cache sometime in the future, just contact me (by email through my profile), and assuming it meets the guidelines, I'll be happy to unarchive it.

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Hidden : 5/10/2007
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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This area of Raleigh, known as Boylan Heights, is celebrating its Centennial in 2007. Rich in local history it is a quiet residential neighborhood of dozing old homes and aged oaks. The neighborhood has a very deep sense of its history and its residents have developed a website for the area with history and other information for those interested - (visit link) As a neighborhood they are strongly supporting the movement to save their neighbor to the south, Dorothea Dix, so that it will be converted into park and public land when the hospital finally closes its doors.

My favorite building in all of Raleigh sits at 308 Boylan – Montfort Hall. It was the home of William Montfort Boylan and has passed through several hands, even those of God as it served as a home for the Boylan Heights Baptist Church for nearly a quarter of a century of its storied hisotry. For more detailed information on this historic building, please visit the National Park Service Historical Register page for Montfort Hall - (visit link) or at the Boylan Heights website - (visit link) While it is currently a private home, its twin is a B&B in historic Tarboro.

The history of Montfort Hall is inextricably tied to the story of the whole neighborhood – which was born after Mr. Boylan’s death in 1899 when his land surrounding the house was divided up and sold for residential development.

A small spit of land where Boylan, Mountford, and Dupont streets meet has been converted into a little park – right across the street from Montfort Hall. After you find the cache here, please walk north a few yards up the sidewalk onto the viaduct. To the east all of downtown Raleigh spreads out in the second best view of town (the first being the oft’ photographed and painted southern approach up 401/S. Saunders). If you were to follow Mountford west you would find yourself at the back doors of Central Prison – North Carolina’s first, originally built in 1870-1884. Stroll south down Boylan and pick your way across the very busy Western Blvd to gain access to the Raleigh Greenway system that borders Dorothea Dix and goes on westward to soccer fields on the south side of Western and then on to Pullen Park on the north side of the boulevard.

Come for a five minute cache, take a leisurely five hour stroll around historic Raleigh.

For further information on the history of the capital city please visit www.raleighcitymuseum.org

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

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