CJS - Knocks Folly & Turner Creek Mystery Cache
CJS - Knocks Folly & Turner Creek
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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 themselves at each cache location. After discovering the 15 required caches, geocachers may have their 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 Lock & Lock container. This cache is only available during daylight hours. Please no night caching!
We placed this cache during a production of MPT Outdoors Maryland on the history of Captain John Smith. The show is scheduled to air in the fall of 2012. A big thanks to Corfmania and family for working on this production.
The posted coordinates will take you to an interpretive sign where you will gather the information needed to solve the simple puzzle below.
A. How many letter are in the 6th word in the title?
B. In _____, CJS conducted expeditions along the Chesapeake Bay. The second digit in the year is B.
C. Smith and his crew rowed and sailed a ___ foot boat. C = subtract the numbers in reverse.
D. The map pictured was published in ____. D is the last digit.
The final is located at: N 39° 21.2AB W 075° 59.0CD
You are on the Sassafras River, not far from the site of an Indian town of the Tockwogh Indians.
In July and August 1608, Captain John Smith explored the rivers in the upper Chesapeake Bay, including the Elk, North East, and Sassafras rivers. At the mouth of the Sassafras River, Smith and his crew met a party of Massawomeck who had just raided the Tockwogh chief’s town upriver.
The Indians and Englishmen regarded each other cautiously. They talked and eventually a brisk trade session ensued.The next morning, the English sailed up the Sassafras to the Tockwogh village. When the villagers saw Massawomeck shields and spears on Smith’s barge (acquired by trading), they concluded that the English had fought and beaten their enemies.
They hailed the English as heroes, and Smith cannily did not correct them. The Tockwoghs had iron cutting tools and pieces of brass, acquired in trade with the Susquehannocks. This interested Smith, and he decided to seek out the Susquehannocks later in his voyage.
Placed with permission from Maryland State Parks.
Thanks to the Calvertcachers for helping with this hide and to the Maryland Geocaching Society for assisting with this project!
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