MML 2013 - Hampstead District 11 Mystery 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:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

The Maryland Municipal League Geotrail 2013
Celebrating Maryland’s Cities and Towns.
Hampstead - MML District 11

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
Welcome to Hampstead, a small town.

You will be taking a short tour of the town. The final is a traditional container stocked with a variety of items. Please no night caching. You'll be visiting six spots around town at which you'll be gathering information needed for the final coordinates.

Stage 1- The posted coordinates take you to a historical marker. There are 2 dates on the sign. The 3rd digit of the first date - the 3rd digit of the second date = C

While here, take time to visit the memorial to those who served.

Stage 2-N 39° 36.455 W 076° 51.072- In 1904, the town jail, with one room, is built behind the old fire hall, which is now a business that is "proud of its insides". It's located across the street from Stage 1. What are the four digits in its address? The 4th digit = E. You don't have to cross the street get this information, you should be able to see it.

Stage 3-N 39° 36.629 W 076° 51.138- A little farther north on Main St. is the current home of the Hampstead Volunteer Fire Department. Quite a difference in the buildings at Stage 2 and Stage 3. There is a four digit number on the building at Stage 3. Make note of it. The 3rd digit = F.

Stage 4-N 39° 36.465 W 076° 51.314- You are now in the Hampstead Municipal Park. It has a couple of ball fields, sand volleyball courts, and a picnic pavilion. You'll be standing in front of a sign the gives you the history of the Sterling Brown Farm. The number of the month that the town purchased the property = B

There are 3 caches located here, if there aren't any muggles around, you'll be able to grab them while you're in the area.

Stage 5-N 39° 36.116 W 076° 51.498- This stage takes you to the final resting place of Edward Richards one of the first settlers of what is now Hampstead. There is a historical sign at the coordinates. What year was the land granted to Edward? The first digit of the year that the land was granted to Edward + the 3rd digit of the year that the land was granted to Edward = A

Be sure to grab the cache located nearby Rattlesnake Ridge .
Stage 6-N 39° 36.281 W 076° 50.990 - The coordinates for this stage is for parking at the current home for the Hampstead Police Department. In 1998, the building which once housed The First National Bank of Hampstead is renovated to house the Hampstead Police Department. There is a plague in the entrance way of the Department. On this plaque is only 1 date. The 3rd digit of the date = D.

The final coordinates are N39 36.AB(C-2) W076 51.DE(F-2)

The cache container is NOT on or in anything that has to do with electric power or lights. It's NOT on any of the electrical boxes or in any of the outlets. You don't have to look in there or on them. Also, the cache isn't on any of the bushes, please don't damage the shrubbery.


Between 1736 and 1738, Robert Owings was assigned to “cut a new road as Christopher Gist had marked it” south from Connewago (now Hanover, Pennsylvania) to a point about halfway to Fort Garrison in Baltimore County. The village of Spring Garden became a stage-line stop on the new road and later became the town of Hampstead. The first settlers to the area were English immigrants who made their way west from the Port of Philadelphia. They were followed by Scots and Germans.

Hampstead has developed from a sleepy, farming community to a modern town of about 4,300 residents. Community activities center around the town’s numerous organizations and schools—Hampstead Day, the Christmas Village, and school events in August.

Hampstead is committed to retaining its small-town atmosphere and cherished quality of life even as it implements its innovative Main Street Revitalization Plan. As major elements of the plan, the town has renovated an old bank building on Main Street as the new police station and was instrumental in the conversion of the Old Elementary School into 88 senior apartments. With the completion of the Hampstead bypass, Hampstead’s goal is economic development in the Main Street corridor and bringing community back into the downtown area.


The Town of Hampstead 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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