Maryland Municipal League Geotrail - Leonardtown Multi-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 4

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.









When Leonard Calvert and his original colonists arrived in what is now Maryland in March of 1634, they immediately set about establishing civil boundaries as they had known them in England. The seat of the first county was set up at the town site of the Ybocomico Indians. The county seat and the county itself were named St. Mary’s, in honor of Mary the Mother of Jesus, under whose protection the Maryland venture was placed. From 1634 to 1708, court proceedings were conducted in the homes of various gentlemen of note in the town.

In 1708, Phillip Lynes, the mayor of St. Mary’s City, gave the colony 50 acres of a piece of land known as “Shepherd’s Old Fields” at the head of Breton Bay, some 14 miles northwest of the city. The land was to be divided into 100 lots and laid out as the county seat of St. Mary’s County. Seven commissioners were charged by the Governor and Assembly of Maryland to oversee this endeavor, which included building a county courthouse on one of the lots at an expense not to exceed 12,000 pounds of tobacco. At the suggestion of Mr. Lynes, the town was named Seymour Town in honor of the royal Governor John Seymour.

In 1728, a new set of commissioners appointed by the government in Annapolis renamed the town Leonardtown for the then Governor of Maryland, Benedict Leonard Calvert. Leonardtown continued to serve as the county seat of St Mary’s County and the place where the colony conducted its official business for the citizens of the county. A new brick courthouse was built in 1736, the original 1708 log building having fallen almost into ruins.

Leonardtown has been invaded twice. The British invaded during the War of 1812 and made off with food supplies. Then, during the Civil War, a Union naval contingent came ashore and searched the houses for weapons and supplies that might be intended for shipment to Confederate forces.

Leonardtown functioned as a port from colonial times up through the end of the steamboat era, when better roads and trucking usurped river navigation as the preferred mode of transporting goods. But the original purpose for which Leonardtown was established—to serve as a center of commerce, residence, and government—and has continued with distinction throughout the town’s three centuries of existence.

You are searching for a Multi cache.
Start point: N38 17.306 W076 38.086

Leonardtown is the county seat of the mother county of Maryland. This cache starts at the oldest house in Leonardtown. Once you find the informational sign, you will use it to figure out where the actual cache is.
N38 17.ABC

A= last digit of the year Abraham Barnes became the owner

B= the difference between the year of the war and the year Francis Scott Key’s cousin purchased the house

C= the last digit of the war

W076.38.xxx

Find the year Abraham Barnes became owner and add last two numbers to original W coordinate.

The cache is within walking distance from this point. On your walk, you might want to stop and check out the old jail and the Moll Dyer stone. Moll was a witch in St Mary’s county.

The Town of Leonardtown thanks you for visiting!



Thanks to Terri & Billy for helping with this hide!






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

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