Washington Grove - Former MML Geotrail 2013 Traditional Cache
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.
Washington Grove - MML District 5

The 2013 MML geotrail and geocoin promotion ended on April 1, 2014. We would like to thank everyone for participating and a special thanks to the Maryland Geocaching Society members for all their support. Be sure to visit the MGS website at www.mdgps.org for the latest news on geocaching in Maryland.


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. The cache is hidden to fit within the towns surroundings. Special instructions: Please park at N 39° 08.418 W 077° 10.553 and follow the walking trails to the cache hide location. Please do not attempt to drive up to this cache on the protected walkways. Also, please no night caching at this location!
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Welcome to the Town of Washington Grove!

Washington Grove is known as the “Town Within A Forest.” Almost entirely surrounded by new housing developments that have changed the area's character from rural farmland to the sprawling housing tracts and strip malls of a Washington, D.C. dormitory community, Washington Grove is an oasis of trees and walkways where people know their neighbors and value their way of life. 'Grovers' have a history of uniting to resist threats on the town’s character posed by the surrounding area’s rapid urbanization.

Washington Grove is listed on the National Register of Historic Places both for its humanistic layout and for the way the town was founded. In the early 1870s, shortly after the B&O Railroad’s Metropolitan Branch was extended from Washington D.C. to Gaithersburg, Maryland, a group of Methodists purchased land nearby as a site for a camp meeting.

In 1873 the first meeting was held in a rainstorm at the “Sacred Circle” in what is now the center of town. Tents were pitched to protect the camp meeting attendees. As more meetings ensued and their occupants began to stay for longer and longer periods, the tents were converted to cottages constructed to echo the traditional tent shape. Herein lies the origin of one of the Grove’s most distinctive features, the oddly-shaped, tightly-spaced homes radiating out from the Sacred Circle.


While the smorgasbord of later additions on these houses gives the older part of town an eccentric and fanciful personality, each of these older houses has a small, tent-shaped core dating from the first cottage construction. They often had steeply peaked roofs with high windows and the rooms only had walls, no ceilings. Cooling breezes flowed through the houses and vacated any summer heat. This nature has been lost in many cottages that have been remodeled inside for year-round occupation and for an additional floor of rooms occupying the once lofty interior structures.
The Town of Washington Grove thanks you for visiting!

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

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

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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