*Start the trail by clicking the link FD passport book to print it or by picking up a passport from one of the locations below. Stamp your book at each stop on the trail. Return to your starting point to show your stamped passport & claim your commemorative geocache coin. Have fun! 
Weekdays: Mon. to Fri. 8:30 am - 5 pm from the Talbot Co. Visitor's Center. at 11 S. Harrison St., Easton, MD 21601 (410) 770 - 8000.
Weekends: Sat. 10am-6pm or Sun. 10am - 4pm from the Academy Art Museum at 106 South Street (410) 822 - 2787 (side entrance) or on Saturdays 10am-5pm from the Talbot Free Library at 100 W. Dover St. (includes Frederick Douglass Reading Room)
After completing this cache scroll to the bottom to find other caches in this Frederick Douglass Geocache Trail.
In 1893, Douglass made his last trip to Talbot County, arriving by train from Cape Charles. He had been on business in the Norfolk area, and was preparing to attend the World’s Colombian Exposition in Chicago on behalf of the Haitian government pavilion. Douglass settled into Easton’s newest accommodations the Avon Hotel, the site now occupied by another Inn. Unknown to him, next-door was the former home of James Parrott, Clerk of the Court, who had signed his freedom papers in 1847. Douglass received visitors in the hotel dining room. His moves about town that day were closely followed by Easton newspapers. Leaving the hotel, he visited the school children on Port Street (site #4 on this trail), and then he took the train to Saint Michaels.
Just imagine what Frederick Douglass must have felt being able to walk around Talbot County as a free man, who was revered by so many people, after enduring the inhumane brutality of slavery in this very same area.
This is one part of 6 caches, on a Frederick Douglass Geocache Trail. To access the other spots of the trail, use the map to find all caches starting with FD or enter the GC codes and navigate.
1. FD - Avon Hotel #1 (GC9Y97P)
2. FD - Hidden Work of Art #2 (GC9Y99X)
3. FD - An Historic Speech #3 (GC9Y988)
4. FD - Easton Colored School #4 (GC9YAPW)
5. FD - Steamboat Arrival #5 (GC9Y98P) ** NOTE - This is the only stop on the trail that may be best to drive to, as it is not in the center of town and you must cross a main road to access it.
6. FD - Legal Trilogy / Forever Free #6 (GC9Y998)