GC4119B MML 2013 - Frederick District 6 (Unknown Cache) in Maryland, United States created by MML Geotrail

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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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Hidden : 1/4/2013

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The Maryland Municipal League Geotrail 2013
Celebrating Maryland’s Cities and Towns.
Frederick - 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

This simple puzzle cache will take you to Frederick City Hall. Please no night caching!
The cache starting coordinates are: N39 24.943 W077 24.737 and this will take you to a fountain in front of city hall.
Looking at city hall, you will see two busts. Go to the bust on the left, that of Thomas Johnson.
Please read the plaque.
Count the number of stars on the plaque. # of stars -3 = A.
Add that number to the North decimal minutes.
What is the day that Thomas Johnson died.
Subtract 6 and then add that number to the West decimal minutes.
Now, go and find the cache! The final is a regular container stocked with a variety of items.

“Shoot, if you must, this old gray head,” the voice of Barbara Fritchie rang out in defiance across the dusty streets of Frederick Towne in 1862. The feisty Union sympathizer was taunting the passing troops of General Thomas ‘Stonewall’ Jackson, vigorously waving a Union flag. This encounter, and Stonewalls’ refusal to allow his troops to touch the flag or the gray head, inspired the great poet Whittier to immortalize Fritchies’ actions and cement his images of a town with “clustered spires” for all time.

"Up from the meadows rich with corn, Clear in the cool September morn,
The clustered spires of Frederick stand, Green-walled by the hills of Maryland."

Frederick has served as a major crossroads since colonial times. Gen. Braddock passed on his way to a fatal ambush at Fort Pitt. Armies blue and gray occupied and marched through it on their way to grave and potent deeds. Their tracks and trails, coupled with latter day road building, have placed the city at the intersections of many major highways- I-70, I-270, 40, 40a 340, 15, 144, 85, 355, 26 and more. Seemingly, all roads lead to Frederick, and the scramble to keep traffic flowing smoothly keeps road builders busy in perpetuity.

Come visit the historic center of Frederick's legal and political administration. Three court houses served the town at or near the present site. Initially, legal proceedings were conducted in “The Dutch Meeting House” and later moved upstairs at Mrs. Charton’s Tavern on the southwest corner of Market and Patrick Streets.

Built in 1750, the first courthouse, a wooden structure, would see a scant 30 years of service before a second seat of jurisprudence was built. This one lasted 77 years before burning down in 1861. Some at the time claimed the fire was deliberately set.

The second edition served justice for 121 years. The third, and current courthouse, was completed in 1982. Several years later the abandoned courthouse was purchased, renovated and today houses City Hall.
While you are downtown, be sure to visit the historic heart of Frederick along Market and Patrick Streets. Stroll along the scenic Carroll Creek Promenade and view the incomparable Bridge Mural. Civil War buffs will relish The National Museum of Civil War Medicine.

Frederick is nick-named the Key City, for Frances Scott Key, who lived in Frederick, wrote the words to our National Anthem, and is buried in Mt. Olivet Cemetery in the heart of the City. Mt. Olivet, too, is a treasure worthy of notice.

The Town of Frederick thanks you for visiting!

Thanks to Deepdish23 for helping with this hide!

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

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Ova

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A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)

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