Sassacus Silhoutte Traditional Cache
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This cache is on a trail connecting the Mountain Laurel and Samp Mortar Open Spaces in Fairfield, CT. Both Open Spaces are closed at sunset. Cache is a .30 cal ammo box, with a Geocaching.com sticker. It contains logbbok, pencil, and trade items. Please be discreet when searching since the cache area is within sight of the trail and close to private properties.
Sassacus Silhoutte This cache is on a trail connecting the Mountain Laurel and Samp Mortar Open Spaces in Fairfield, CT. Both Open Spaces are closed at sunset. Cache is a .30 cal ammo box, with a Geocaching.com sticker. It contains logbbok, pencil, and trade items. Please be discreet when searching since the cache area is within sight of the trail and close to private properties. Please conceal cache the same way you found it. The cache is on a trail that branches off the Mountain Laurel trail to the East. Follow the yellow blazes since there are several informal trails in the area. If coming from the Samp Mortar Open Space and Samp Mortar Rock cache, find the trail coming from the western end of the Samp Mortar Rock area and follow the northern perimeter of the boggy area. Follow the yellow blazes since there are several informal trails in the area. Listen and look for “Little Fountain,” a natural spring within site of the trail. The cache is on part of the trail that is on the backend of a private yard. The owners have built and maintained the trail to connect the two Open Spaces and welcome people to walk the trail and look for the cache. They hope the cache inspires people to visit both Open Spaces and admire the unique rock formations. See if you can make out the silhouette in the rock face as you come from the Samp Mortar Rock Open Space. (Like New Hampshire’s Old Man in the Mountain before its collapse.) Some believe it is the silhouette of Sassacus, the chief of the once powerful Pequot tribe as he continues to mourn the unrequited love of the Indian princess Tahmore as well as the total destruction of his Pequot tribe in the Great Swamp Fight just a few miles south of this area on July 13, 1637. (Check out the “Pequot Village” at The Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center 80 miles east and “The Swamp Fight Monument” on a small triangle of land along the Post Road on the border between Fairfield & Southport near a bank branch and a Dunkin’ Donuts.) It’s been reported that the area was a popular picnic spot for people at the turn of the last century, including P.T. Barnum and family. (Check out the P.T. Barnum museum in Bridgeport.) Bridgeport city folks would enjoy a “day in the country,” wade about in the Mill River (this part now dammed in 1902 to make Samp Mortar Lake), explore the caves (many now filled in by the housing development north of the rock face), and hope to find aboriginal artifacts. Find the nearby Samp Mortar cache for further aboriginal history\legend.
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