Webber Pond Traditional Cache
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This cammoed, sandwich size, lock-n-Lock cache container is located on the loop trail at the Vassalboro Wildlife Habitat, on the Webber Pond road in Vassalboro.
As you walk the loop trail, imagine an earlier time, over 300 years ago. Before Vassalboro was settled as a farming community, the Abenaki Indians would hunt in the surounding forests and fish in the waters of Webber Pond.
In the 1800's Farmers cleared the land around the pond to plant crops and mill owners harnessed the waters by building a dam where Webber Pond empties into Seven Mile Brook .
My Great Aunt Annie had a camp just the other side of the dam. It was called Camp Ann and back in the 1920's my Dad and all twelve of his brothers and sisters used to ride the trolley cars from Augusta out to the camp on summer days. You will walk along the old trolley track bed as you make your way to the cache.
The trolley line opened in 1909 and connected the rural town of Vassalboro to the cities of Waterville, Augusta and Lewiston. The line was shut down and abandoned in 1932.
The lands and waters of the Vassalboro Wildlife Habitat are managed and maintained by the Kennebec Land Trust and all rules pertaining to use of the area can be found on pamphlets found in the kiosk at the head of the trails, near where you park.
CONGRATULATIONS TO DUBORD207 FOR A FTF!
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