The Trail Cache Traditional Cache
SirCrab: No response to my previous note so the cache is being archived.
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It is a cache that could be hard and not that far off the trail should be fun for people. you should consider taking a walk because there's trails if you look around and it is on blandair property and consider looking blandair up online. leave swag.
Before the fun, there is a map of blandair in "pictures" if you wanted to take a walk and see the abandon mansion and abandon structures or print it out. Is a regular container and is a medium cache and is on blandair property here is a description of blandair In 1689, 1087 acres on Elk Ridge, in what was then colonial Maryland's Anne Arundel County, was surveyed for Edward Talbott.[3] Known as "Talbott's Resolution Manor", Talbott bequeathed the property to his children, John and Elizabeth, who each received half of the property after his death in 1689.[3] The land was patented to John and Elizabeth Talbott in 1714, and by 1716 they had quickly sold off 800 acres of the property.[3] By 1753, four different owners were in possession of the original plot: William Hall (500 acres), Nicholas Gassaway (300 acres), Edward Dorsey (200 acres), and Rachel Norwood (87 acres).[3] In 1804, John Crompton Weems purchased a portion named "La Grange", which he eventually sold to his daughter-in-law, Martha P. Weems.[4][nb 1] Between 1828 and 1845, Theodorick Bland purchased the farm from the Weems family and under his ownership, the property became known as "Blandair".[2][4][5][6][nb 2] Sarah Bland Mayo inherited the property upon her father's death and eventually gave the property to her daughter, Sarah Mayo Gaither, as a wedding present in 1857.[2][nb 3] Bland's descendant's owned the property until the Gaither's sold the property in 1867.[1][4] Another series of owners held the land until it was sold to Baltimore developer Henry E. Smith and his wife, Lillie, in 1937.[4] After Lillie Smith died in 1979, Blandair was inherited by her daughter, Elizabeth, who resided on the property until her death in 1997.[4] In 1997 or August 1998, Blandair was purchased from the Smith family by Howard County, Maryland.[1][2] Legal challenges delayed planning efforts, but the courts eventually affirmed Howard County's ownership of the property.[1] Structures[edit] The estate was documented by the National Park Service's Historic American Buildings Survey in 2003.[2] The main house, known as Blandair Mansion, was built by Bland's descendent's in the mid-nineteenth century.[2] As of 2011, the mansion is being restored by the Howard County Department of Recreation and Parks with assistance from the NPS's Historic Preservation Training Center and is slated to become the "historical centerpiece" of Blandair Regional Park.[7] Built around 1845, a small slave quarter stands next
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