The MML Geotrail and coin promotion has ended. However, please look for a future MML Geocache project.
Suddenly there a came a tapping…
Baltimore is celebrating the life and works of Edgar Allan Poe with a year long citywide festival - Nevermore 2009. The festival will officially kick off in January 2009 with a variety of events to celebrate Poe’s birthday, followed by a year of lectures, wine tastings, art exhibitions, special tours and more all in honor of Edgar Allan Poe. For a full list of these events, Click here.
The Bicentennial of Edgar Allan Poe’s birth occurs January 19th 2009. Poe wrote many of his short stories while living in Baltimore and is buried along with his wife in Westminster Graveyard at Fayette and Greene Street. Since 1949, a mysterious visitor has left a partial bottle of cognac and 3 roses on his grave on the anniversary of his birth.
The Enoch Pratt Library, site of this Geocache, is also home to the Edgar Allan Poe Room which contains a collection of documents and letters relating to Poe as well as a selection of books about him. Poe is renowned for his short stories - tales of the macabre and journeys into the dark side of human nature.
Enoch Pratt (1808 - 1896) was an American businessman in Baltimore, a Unitarian, and a philanthropist. Born in North Middleborough, Massachusetts, and educated at the Bridgewater Academy there, Enoch Pratt clerked in a Boston hardware firm before moving to Baltimore in 1831 to launch his own wholesale hardware business on South Charles Street.
Pratt became a capitalist and a friend of Andrew Carnegie. He learned ironmaking as a trade. He arrived in Baltimore in 1831 with $150, and went on to make his fortune by way of E. Pratt & Brothers, 23-25 S. Charles St., Baltimore; Maryland Steamboat Co., Director; Susquehanna Canal Company; Vice-President of Philadelphia, Wilmington, & Baltimore Railroad; and director of three other Railroads. He built and donated a public library system to the City of Baltimore.
The Enoch Pratt Library consists of the Main Library (pictured below) and twenty-two Branches throughout the Baltimore Metropolitan area.
The geocache you seek is offset. The first container is a bison tube that attaches magnetically. Inside the tube is a note directing you the final cache location.
Enoch Pratt Central Library - Hours of Operation
Monday - Wednesday 10:00 am - 7:00 pm
Thursday 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Friday - Saturday 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Sunday 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm Oct. to May only
Baltimore and The Enoch Pratt Libraries Thank You for Visiting
Thanks to Trainbug for helping with the original MML hide!
Thanks to the Maryland Geocaching Society for assisting with this project!