Maryland Municipal League Geotrail - Ocean City Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 12/31/2008
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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The Maryland Municipal League Geocache Trail
Celebrating Maryland’s Cities and Towns.
MML District 1

The printed MML Passport is no longer available. However, you may download a copy from the MML website here.

The trail consists of 11 MML Districts (regions).
The MML Geocache Trail project will launch January 1, 2009 with 78 participating cities and towns. A trackable geo coin will be given to the first 500 geocachers as an incentive for locating at least 2 municipal caches in each of the 11 districts. To be eligible for the coin, geocachers must pick up a Passport at any of the designated county visitor centers. Geocachers must use the stamp in the cache on their Passports and write down the cache code word listed in each cache. After at least two municipal caches in each district are discovered, geocachers may return to one of the county visitor centers and have their Passports validated to receive their collectable coin.

For a complete list of participating visitor centers visit the MML web site at http://www.mdmunicipal.org/mmlhome/index.cfm or MGS web site at www.mdgps.org.






Ocean City is Maryland’s only coastal community, situated on a barrier island that, until the mid-1800s, was a barren place attracting only a few fishermen who came over from the mainland on small rowboats. In 1869, a local farmer named Isaac Coffin constructed a small inn to accommodate the fishermen and others who were beginning to show an interest in the beach as a refuge from city life. The founding date of Ocean City is regarded as July 4, 1875, when the Atlantic Hotel first opened its doors.


Soon, other hotel properties arose. When Ocean City became an incorporated town in 1880, the little fishing village was on its way to becoming a famous seaside resort. The following year, a railroad bridge built over Sinepuxent Bay afforded visitors more convenient access to the town; prior to this, they had to dismount from the train on the mainland and then cross the bay by boat. It was not until World War I that a roadway bridge was built.

In the early 1900s, Daniel B. Trimper and his brother, both from Baltimore, started an amusement park, which is still owned and operated by the Trimper family. Local men worked in the fishing industry started by Capt. Christopher Ludlum and his son from Cape May, New Jersey, while their wives and mothers ran the hotels. From 1900 to 1915, the first sections of Ocean City’s famous Boardwalk were constructed; in those early days, it was taken up and stored during the winter. Today’s Boardwalk is a permanent walkway spanning nearly three miles.


In August 1933, a violent four-day storm hit Ocean City and cut an inlet through the island, linking the Atlantic Ocean with Sinepuxent Bay. The inlet soon brought a new industry to Ocean City—sport fishing. With easy access to the ocean from the bay, fishermen no longer had to launch boats through the surf or limit themselves to bay fishing. In 1934, the first white marlin was caught off the coast, and Ocean City proclaimed itself “White Marlin Capital of the World.”


This once humble fishing village covering only a few blocks of land now stretches for ten miles, has a city manager form of government (adopted in 1981), and operates as a full-service, year-round resort. It is an economic powerhouse for the entire region, welcoming over eight million visitors annually and funneling close to $3 billion into the state’s economy. A new convention center brings visitors throughout the year, and numerous golf courses have turned Ocean City into a premiere golfing destination, complementing its longstanding reputation as a family resort.


Visit www.ococean.com for more information.


The Town of Ocean City thanks you for visiting!




Thanks to 7Searchers for helping with this hide!






Thanks to the Maryland Geocaching Society for assisting with this project!

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