MML 2013 - Burkittsville District 6 Traditional Cache

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MML Geotrail: The MML and the Maryland Geocaching Society (MGS) would like to thank everyone for participating in the 2013 MML Geotrail. The trail and geocoin promotion ended effective April 2014. Please be sure to visit the MGS website at www.mdgps.org for latest news on geocaching in Maryland.

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Calvertcachers

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Hidden : 1/4/2013
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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The Maryland Municipal League Geotrail 2013
Celebrating Maryland’s Cities and Towns.
Burkittsville - MML District 6

The trail consists of 10 MML participating Districts (regions).
The MML Geocache Trail project will launch January 5, 2013 with 49 participating cities and towns. A trackable geocoin will be awarded to the first 200 geocachers as an incentive for locating at least 2 municipal caches in each of the 10 participating districts. To be eligible for the coin, geocachers must download a MML 2013 passport, find and log at least 20 of the MML 2013 geocaches. Geocachers must record the code word from the cache in their passport, and post a picture at the cache location on the cache page with your found log in order to earn the coin. However, this is not required to log the find.

After finding at least two municipal caches in each of the 10 participating districts, geocachers may return their completed passport to the MML Office in Annapolis for validation to receive their collectable geocoin. Please refer to the passport or MML website for complete details.

For a complete list of participating towns or for updated information, visit the MML web site at MML link or the Maryland Geocaching Society web site at MGS Link

You are seeking a traditional hide stocked with a variety of items. Please no night caching!

Nestled among the quaint small towns and rolling hills of Frederick County is the village of Burkittsville, Maryland. Named after an early settler by the name of Henry Burkitt, Burkittsville remains a portrait of what "life" must have been like in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Main Street flourished with places of worship, residences, and stores while being surrounded by fields, mountainous views and a "dense woods" to the west.

This rural environment has set the tone for strong values which continue to be shared here. Burkittsville is true to its town motto "Neighbor Helping Neighbor". The lifestyle here is a chosen one which continues to honor family, friends and neighbors as well as the faiths and traditions handed down through generations.Lutheran and Reformed churches, homes, and trade establishments distributed the length of Main Street, are bordered at rear by broad fields adjoining town. Crampton's Gap in South Mountain rises to the west side of town. Often characterized as a 'time capsule,' the town retains its time-honored visual characteristics and comfortable, homey patina. The thin strand of buildings comprising Main Street is bordered by croplands and dairy farms. Once the lifeblood of the community, commercial support enterprises have given way to a largely residential flavor.

Within the past century only the automobile has altered Burkittsville's leisurely pace. Rising at the crossroads of the Conococheague and Seneca trails, the village evolved as 'Harley's Store' taking its name from early settler Joshua Harley of eastern Maryland, a Revolutionary War veteran who erected the first dry goods establishment. A post office was granted in 1824, altering the popular name to 'Harley's Post Office,' what now comprises West Main Street. Upon Harleys death in 1828 the name was changed to Burkittsville in consideration of dominant property owner Henry Burkitt (1767-1836), originally of Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The Burkitt estate equity case of 1839 established lots comprising most of East Main Street. Burkitt's farm carries the land grant title 'Friends Good Will.' The Main Street stem arose on 'Addition to Friends Good Will.


Sole exception to Burkittsville's pastoral calm was the Battle of Crampton's Gap, September 14, 1862, a bloody prelude to the Battle of Antietam three days later. Though some town inhabitants fled to safety, others remained to cheer on Union troops marching though town into combat while artillery shells exploded about the town. Its churches and many of its houses were used as hospitals for months after. In 1884 noted Maryland author George Alfred Townsend (1841-1914) purchased the land in Crampton's Gap for an eccentric private estate he called 'Gapland.' He erected the War Correspondents Memorial Arch to Civil War journalists in 1896, now the centerpiece of a state park closely associated with the town. In 1975 Burkittsville in its entirety was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in recognition of its multi-layered value to the state and nation. It remains a prime tourist destination, notably for Civil War aficionados.
The Town of Burkittsville thanks you for visiting!

Thanks to Sircurly for helping with this hide!
Thanks to the Calvertcachers, Snurt, and the Maryland Geocaching Society for assisting with this project!

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