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.
Welcome To Myersville.
This cache has placed by the Maintenance Deptartment of the Town
of Myersville with the full support of Town Council, and under the
direction of the Town Administrator.
Located mid-way between Frederick and Hagerstown, nestled on
rolling terrain on the east shoulder of South Mountain between I-70
and Route 40, Myersville retains the feel and flavor of Smalltown,
USA. Incorporated in 1904 as the 102nd of 157 municipalities in the
State of Maryland, Myersville is named for early settler, James
Stottlemyer, who built the first log house in the area.
For the small and quaint village that it is, Myersville boasts
five public parks, from the intimately scaled Trolley Park at town
center to the fully developed Harp Park. Grindstone Park west of
town provides a setting of quiet charm for relaxation and picnics.
Doubs Meadow, a work in progress, provides added recreational
opportunities. Ashley Park along Catoctin Creek, with its steeps
slopes and wooded floodplain, will remain to be enjoyed in its
natural state.
Myersville hosts a yearly Trolley Festival, celebrating a mode
of transportation that benefitted the town and area for many years.
The Festival occurs every fall and includes the displays of many
area craftsmen, fine foods, auctions and bluegrass music
competition.
Construction of the Frederick & Middletown Railroad was
completed in 1896, with the first trolley lumbering over Braddock
Mountain in October 1896. Local farmers, appreciating what this
electric trolley system meant to nearby Middletown, mounted a
campaign to extend the line to Myersville.
The first trolley entered Myersville on October 8, 1898.
Businessmen in Hagerstown, seeing its value, initiated efforts to
extend the line across South Mountain into their town. The Railway
owners (later known as Potomac Edison, suppliers of electricity)
soon began construction, and six years later, the electric wonder
reached Hagerstown.
Following World War I, Potomac Edison bought and modified four
surplus trolley cars (#150 - #153). The cars were placed into
service on the Hagerstown and Frederick Railway, which boasted over
eighty miles of rail.
Like the visionary farmers, a local resident acquired and
renovated Trolley Car #150 (see photo below), assuring its
preservation and value to historical posterity. The car is
displayed yearly at the Myersville Trolley Festival. Built by the
Southern Railway Company in 1918, the car served Camp Jackson
during World War I, and transported troops back to the base
following their return from Europe.
The Geocache you seek is a regular size lock-n-lock container.
It is available from dawn to dusk. Hidden in Trolley Park (no,
there is not a trolley on site...yet), it contains buttons
celebrating the Trolley Festival and the town of Myersville
Note - McGyver types who carry field tools will be able to
retrieve this cache. Those who don't will have visit the nearby
Town Hall (it is within view) and ask for the tool. Town Hall is
open Monday through Friday, 8 - 4.
Thanks to BJ & Snurt for helping with this hide!
Thanks to the Maryland Geocaching Society for assisting
with this project!