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Talbot's Fort Traditional Cache

This cache has been archived.

OReviewer: As there's been no cache to find for a long time or has had no owner response for at least 30 days, I'm archiving it to keep it from showing up in search lists, and to prevent it from blocking other cache placements.

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Hidden : 5/9/2014
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

I saw this memorial stone and went to investigate.  Talbot's Fort.  Hmmmm.  Now I learned something today!


Colonel George Talbot, cousin of Lord Baltimore, in defiance of William Penn's claim to Delaware, erected a fort near-by in 1684 on land of the widow Ogle.  Talbot dispossessed settlers between here and Iron Hill who refused to acknowledge Baltimore as proprietor.  Fort garrisoned about  two years boundaries settled by agreement in 1760, surveyed by mason and Dixon in 1763.  Confirmed by proclamation of the provincial Governor, John Penn 1775

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