Maryland Municipal League Geotrail - Somerset 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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Geocache Description:


The Maryland Municipal League Geocache Trail
Celebrating Maryland’s Cities and Towns.
MML District 5

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.






Set down at the turn of the century around an unpaved crossroad in the midst of Maryland tobacco fields, the cluster of new residences there bore little resemblance to the Town of Somerset of today. That crossroad now is known as the intersection of Dorset Avenue and Surrey Street. In 1906, it was merely the center of a fifty-acre parcel of farmland which five government scientists had purchased in 1890. The nearest County public school was in Rockville, although Somerset children at first attended classes in a rented house northward between the Offutt and Davidson farms. When, a year or so later, they entered the E. V. Brown school near Chevy Chase Circle, they had to walk for a mile across a farm field and an open stream.

The first Town Council was elected on May 7, 1906, and Dr. Charles A. Crampton became the first mayor. The first and most pressing item on the agenda of the council was to provide a base for a property tax by assessing in an orderly and fair way all the property within the Town boundaries. On June 11, a Town Board of Assessors completed the assessments to the satisfaction of the Council, and the tax rate was set at fifty cents on each $100 of taxable property. A budget for 1907-1908 was approved: total expenditures were to be $511, of which $350 was to be spent for maintenance and lighting of streets and sidewalks.

The cache is hidden at Somerset’s Town Hall; it is hidden by permission of the Mayor. Please use the listed parking coordinates and be respectful of the area. The cache is not in the bushes and requires no damage to the area to retrieve.
The Town of Somerset thanks you for visiting!



Thanks to JohnnyCache for helping with this hide!






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


Parking Coordinates: N38 58.088 W077 05.436

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Ynggvpr

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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