CJS - Friends of the Rappahannock #2 Traditional Cache

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CAJO Ranger: We would like to thank everyone for participating in the Capt. John Smith GeoTour and the folks with the Friends of the Rappahannock for their support.

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Hidden : 6/2/2011
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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The Captain John Smith Geotrail
Friends of the Rappahannock #2


Come on a journey to remember and commemorate the history and travels of Captain John Smith! Over four hundred years ago, Englishman John Smith and a small crew set out in an open boat to explore the Chesapeake Bay. Between 1607 and 1609 Smith mapped and documented nearly 3,000 miles of the Bay and its rivers. Along the way he visited many thriving American Indians communities and gathered information about this “fruitful and delightsome land.” In December 2006 the U.S. Congress designated the routes of Smith’s explorations of the Chesapeake as a national historic trail—the first national water trail.

Are you ready to follow in the wake of Captain John Smith? Visit sites along the National Historic Trail and learn about the native cultures and the natural environment of the 17th-century Chesapeake through the Captain John Smith Chesapeake Geotrail. The Trail provides opportunities for you to experience the Bay through the routes and places associated with Smith’s explorations. Caches will be located in museums, refuges, parks, and towns in Virginia, Maryland and Delaware along the rivers and creeks that Smith and his crew explored four centuries ago.

The Captain John Smith (CJS) Geotrail launched June 4, 2011 with over 40 caches within Maryland, Virginia and Delaware. A trackable geo coin will be awarded to the first 400 geocachers, while supplies last, for locating at least 15 CJS caches. To be eligible for the coin, geocachers must download a passport from either the CJS Geotrail or Maryland Geocaching Society website. Geocachers must find and log at least 15 finds, record the code word from each cache on their passport and post a picture of themselve at each cache location. After discovering the 15 required caches, geocachers may have thier passports validated in person or via mail at the National Park Service, Chesapeake Bay Office located at 410 Severn Ave, Suite 314, Annapolis, MD 21403. Please refer to the passport for complete validation instructions.

Participating in the CJS geotrail is fun and we hope that many people join in. However, it is not a requirement for logging your find on this cache once you find the container.

You are seeking a traditional hide. A Lock & Lock stocked with a variety of items. Please adhere to all park rules and no night caching.
The park has requested that all cachers sign-in with the Friends of the Rappahonnock (FOR) office on the 2nd floor before seeking the cache. Cachers must park at the posted coordinates 38 18.992 077 29.138 or on the side street. Do not park on the FOR property. This facility is free of charge and is open 9:00 a.m to 4:00 p.m. Monday through Friday and closed on Saturday & Sunday.

In August 1608, Captain John Smith and eleven men, on the second voyage around the Chesapeake undertaken that summer, entered the Rappahannock River. Three more weeks and they would be back in Jamestown. Members of the crew included five gentlemen, a physician, a carpenter to make boat repairs, a tailor (of clothes and canvas tarpaulins and sails), a fisherman/sailor, a fish merchant who knew about different types of edible fish, a laborer, and a soldier. Remarkably, through skirmishes, ambushes, hostage trading and other dangers, none of the explorers had perished. Until this sojourn on the Rappahannock.

Richard Fetherstone, one of the gentlemen of the crew, was sick, either from a possible case of malaria, or maybe from heat stroke. The other crew members had also been sick but recovered. Fetherstone’s condition grew worse and he died somewhere between the Indian towns of Secobeck and Massawoteck. Smith’s crew gave him a formal burial, either overboard or in a marsh, in a little bay they called “Fetherstone’s Bay”. Captain Smith described the gentleman as having “behaved himself honestly, valiantly, and industriously.”

The Friends of the Rappahannock (FOR) was formed in 1985 as a non-profit, grassroots conservation organization. The Friends’ goal is to maintain the water quality and scenic beauty of the Rappahannock River and its tributaries. They work with a wide variety of stakeholders, from local governments to elementary students, to educate about the river and to advocate for actions and policies that will protect and restore the values that make the Rappahannock River so special.

The Friends of the Rappahannock believe that community education is an essential tool for promoting environmental awareness and protection. As a result, they lead a variety of public education programs which focus on understanding and protecting the river's unique natural, scenic and historic resources.

Thanks to Barkfeather for helping with this hide and to the Maryland Geocaching Society for assisting with this project!

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