MML 2013 - Seat Pleasant District 9 Traditional Geocache

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MML Geotrail: I have not received a response from the Town or the MML on this hide. Therefore, I am going to archive. We can re-publish a new hide if the town wants to participate.

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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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The Maryland Municipal League Geotrail 2013
Celebrating Maryland’s Cities and Towns.
Seat Pleasant - MML District 9

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, tucked away in a special hiding spot. The container is stocked with a variety items. Don't forget, if you wish to earn the new MML geocoin, please record the code word and post a picture with your found log.


Seat Pleasant is a friendly community located just over the District of Columbia line at its northeast corner. The site is part of what had been the Williams-Berry estate until the descendants of General Otho Holland Williams (founder of Williamsport), a Revolutionary War hero, and James Berry, a mid-17th-century Puritan leader, sold it to Joseph Gregory in 1850.

Designers of the Chesapeake Beach Railway, constructed in 1897–99 between Washington and Chesapeake Beach in Calvert County, located their first station in Maryland (or last, depending on the direction of travel) on the railway’s right-of-way that traversed the Gregory property. They called the station District Line. In 1906, the growing number of residents in the area around the station adopted a more imaginative name for their community— Seat Pleasant, after the early Williams-Berry estate.

Steady growth of traffic on the Chesapeake Beach Railway between 1900 and its peak in 1920 translated into steady development for Seat Pleasant. When the community was incorporated as a town in 1931, it had a school, water company, sewer connections courtesy of the District of Columbia’s sanitary system, and reliable fire protection by the Seat Pleasant Fire and Community Welfare Association. But by that time, the railroad had been in steady decline for ten years, and in 1935 it ceased operations.

The cause of its demise—highway construction— was in clear evidence in Seat Pleasant. The town gained two state highways running through it— Maryland Route 704 (now called Martin Luther King Highway and previously named George Palmer Highway after a banker and community leader) and Maryland Route 214 (Central Avenue).
With highway construction came further expansion for Seat Pleasant. Construction of “affordable” housing, notably the Gregory Estates apartments in 1949, was the catalyst for the migration of African-American families from the District of Columbia; before that time, the community had been all white. In the 1980s, the old Chesapeake Beach Railroad roundhouse and turntable were demolished to make room for the Addison Plaza Shopping Center on Central Avenue.

Like Watkins Hardware Store, which was a fixture in Seat Pleasant from the early 1900s until it finally closed in the mid 1990s, most of the testaments to the town’s past are long gone. Two that remain are the Episcopal Addison Chapel (1696) and Mount Victory Baptist Church (1908). Goodwin Park, named after a former mayor, is the town’s most prominent location.
The Town of Seat Pleasant thanks you for visiting!

Thanks to Moon_pie10 for helping with this hide!
Thanks to the Calvertcachers, Snurt, and the Maryland Geocaching Society for assisting with this project!

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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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