GC34NCP George Washington Stopped Here...Charles Friend's (Traditional Cache) in Maryland, United States created by wmshaysix

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Hidden : 9/22/2011

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Geocache Description:

The cache is a camoed sealed water proof container with a log only. There is a Historical Marker where Charles Friend’s House was once located. The cache is not at the historical marker but nearby. BYOP

Returning from his visit to his western lands George Washington, accompanied by his nephew Bushrod Washington, set out to find a wholly Virginia route that would connect the North Branch of the Potomac to the Ohio Valley. On September 26th, 1784 they crossed into Maryland and stopped at Charles Friends house for a meal of boiled corn. In his diary Washington wrote “From Friends I passed by a spring (distance 3 miles) called Archy's from a Man of that name-crossed back bone [present day Backbone Mountain in Garrett County] and decended into Ryan's Glade." That evening they stayed at Joseph Logstons. On the 27th they left Longstons at dawn and traveled 35 miles to Fort Pleasant. Washington's diary entry on the 27th included " I came to Colo. Abrahm. Hites at Fort pleasant ... a little before the Suns setting.

Bushrod Washington(June 5, 1762 – November 26, 1829), was born in Westmoreland County, Virginia, and was the son of John Augustine Washington. He graduated from the College of William and Mary, where he was one of the first members of Phi Beta Kappa. His uncle, George Washington, sponsored Bushrod’s legal studies with fellow Founder James Wilson. He studied law privately until 1781 and then served in the Revolutionary War. He inherited Mount Vernon from George after the latter died in 1799.

Bushrod Washington served as a U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice. Washington was nominated for the court after another Federalist, John Marshall, turned John Adams down and endorsed him. He became an associate justice on February 4, 1799, at the age of 36 and served on the Court until 1829. In 1816, he helped create the American Colonization Society and held the position as its first president for his entire life.

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