Belfast Farm is a land in which all things are always in perfect harmony. Nothing is ever out of balance. The people who live there are calm and welcoming, but guests often find the tranquility maddening.
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Notice that the posted coordinates are in the form of a palindrome - the same when read forward or backward. They would be part of the yin and yang of Belfast. No cache is located at ground zero.
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Since this is a letterbox hybrid, proceed to GZ. Now face the embankment generally to the east away from the road. Work your way north until you discover a hollowed out rocky area at your feet. There you will find your prize under some rocks. There is a small grassy area near the stop sign large enough for one vehicle to use as a pulloff. If you are searching uphill beyond that, you have gone too far. There is no need to cross any roads if you parked in the aforementioned grassy area.
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The cache contains a stamp and ink pad for letterboxing. They are not part of the SWAG and should remain with the cache.
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Please hide as well or better after you have logged your find.
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This is a high traffic area many hours of the day. Be very careful getting out of and entering your cache recovery unit. Leave the kids in the car.
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The code letter no longer has any significance.
Some History of the Area
.....The land around this cache was once part of the Johannes Steiner (John Stoner) farm aquisitioned in 1744. It is one of, if not the oldest, continuous holdings in Franklin county. Originally 200 acres known as Belfast, the estate grew to over 2000 acres, extending along Rt. 997 into Maryland about 1500 feet south of Rt. 418 and west along that road for approximately a mile and a half. The line then zigzagged north toward Waynesboro east of the treatment plant and Green Hill Cemetery and north to Fifth Street. The property extended east along Amsterdam Road about as far as the Jacob Mack property. The Stoner farm included most of the homes on what is now the west side of Ringgold, all of what is now GemCraft Estates, Welty,s Mill (originally Stoner’s Mill), and Welty’s bridge (which is visible from the cache).
.....The barn across the road is part of the current Stoner holding and is leased for farming. The David Stoner house a short distance along Lyons Road dates to approximately 1800, but another home just north and now the focus of archeological digs, was there prior to 1800. The red brick (“abandoned”) home along Rt. 997 was the Henry X. Stoner house built about 1850. Toward the end of the 19th century, when the Western Maryland RR expanded and built a trestle next to the Henry Stoner house, Henry and his younger brother, David Funk Stoner who lived with Henry, moved their families into Waynesboro and the house was leased.