Coming to Baltimore: Merritt Point Park Traditional Cache
SirCrab: Unfortunately the owner did not respond to the previous note so this is being archived. Should the owner decide to repair/replace this and have it unarchived, it can be done as long as it still conforms to the guidelines.
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SirCrab
Coming to Baltimore: Merritt Point Park
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What was once a lush farm owned by the Merritt family of Dundalk is now a beautiful, waterside county park.
The historic North Point Peninsula was once nothing but impassable marsh and open farmland. The families who owned the prosperous plantations of the area were of English, Scottish, and Irish decent. Many of their family names still grace streets, parks, historical sites, and businesses in the area, including the Todd, Merritt, Lynch, Stansbury, and Gray families.
The Merritt Family sold their farm to Bethlehem Steel in the early 1900's. It remained undeveloped for a long time, eventually becoming a public bathing beach known as "The Old Snakehole." After the swimming hole closed due to water pollution in 1965, the county bought the land and developed a park on the site. This park boasts fishing piers, a playground, picnic pavilions, a boat launch, and playing fields as well as a beautiful view of Bullneck Creek.
Bring your own writing implement to sign the log because the cache is too small to hold one. Room for only tiny trade items in this cache.
This is in a county park, so no caching after dusk! When you rehide the container, please cover with leaf litter to prevent muggles from finding it.
This cache is part of a series called "Coming to Baltimore" that highlights places of historical or cultural significance to groups that settled in Southeastern Baltimore County and East Baltimore, including the Native Americans, English, Irish, African-Americans, Jews, Italians, Greeks, and Hispanics.
This series is the by-product of a semester-long project that my ENGL101 students at CCBC Dundalk completed this semester. They had to conduct research into each of these groups and identify these historic sites. Thanks goes to the CCBC Geocachers for assisting with placement of the series.
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