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.
Frostburg owes its existence to a project authorized by Congress
in 1806— construction of The National Pike. Josiah Frost
bought a tract of land that straddled the proposed route and laid
out a series of “town lots” on it. His son, Meshach,
built a log house on Lot 1 and brought his bride to live there in
June 1812.
When stagecoach service was inaugurated on the Pike in 1818, the
house became an inn known as Highland Hall, and a cluster of
taverns, smithies, and houses grew up around it. Over the years,
Highland Hall was joined by the Franklin Hotel and other
hostelries. The Post Office called the place Frostburg.
When the railroad arrived in the late 1840s, merchants were able
to ship coal in quantities never before possible. The town became a
commercial coal-mining center, alternately thriving and suffering
with the fluctuating price of coal.
The manufacture of fire bricks from the high-grade fire clays
found in the area also became economically feasible with the
availability of the railroad for hauling the product to market.
That industry was well established by the 1860s. The Big Savage
Fire Brick Company, formed in 1902, is still one of the major
manufacturers of fire bricks in the eastern United States.
Frostburg boasts many historic and charming homes. A few date
from the earliest days of the National Pike, others are
contemporaries of the more famous mansions of the South, and some
were built in the late 1800s. Many stand unchanged in their
original dignity. Amidst them, at the heart of the town’s
National Historic District, a monument marks the grave site of
Meshach Frost and his wife.
The story of Frostburg, as well as the beginnings of the
American Nation, are highlighted at the following fascinating and
worthwhile activity sites -
Frostburg
Museum
The Thrasher
Carriage museum
The Scenic Western Maryland
Railroad
The Great Allegheny
Passage - scenic hiking/biking trail linking Pittsburgh
with Washington, D.C.
The Geocache you seek is a regular size lock-n-lock container.
Be sure to stamp your Passport and write the secret word in the
appropriate place.
Frostburg Thanks You for Visiting
Thanks to LisaandDarin for replacing this MML hide
and
to KG8GN for helping with the original hide!
Thanks to the Maryland Geocaching Society for assisting
with this project!