Welcome to Cache Across Maryland 2023. This year is the 20th anniversary of CAM. We have made this year a little special with a CAM cache in every county, plus Baltimore City.
This is one of the caches placed for Cache Across Maryland 2023. You must find a minimum of ten caches prior to the picnic held on Saturday, June 3, 2023 in order to receive a free Maryland Geocaching Society CAM geocoin.
Make note of the code word found inside each cache container. You must enter all the symbols into an online decoder in order to print your CAM certificate as well as print a claim form to submit and receive your geocoin at the picnic. More info on CAM is available here.
There are FIVE MANDATORY COUNTIES. THOSE WILL BE GARRETT, ST MARY'S, CECIL, WORCESTER AND ANNE ARUNDEL. You can choose any of the other five counties to find a minimum of ten CAM caches.
Kitzmiller Botanical Gardens
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Settlement in Kitzmiller (formerly Kitzmillerville) predates at least the Civil War. The town sprang up around the woolen mill Ebenezer Kitzmiller built in 1853 with the period between 1900 and the end of World War I seeing the greatest expansion in Kitzmiller, both commercially and in terms of population. The coming of the railroad in the 1880s brought a lumber boom, and coal mining became the town's economic mainstay around the turn of the century. At its peak, Kitzmiller boasted 1,800 people, a movie theater, its own bank, three barber shops, a dentist, two doctors, three groceries, two dry goods stores, a beauty parlor and a pharmacy. There were never any bars, however; a covenant in all deeds banned the manufacture and sale of all alcoholic beverages here.
For years, the rising waters of the Potomac River threatened the town's existence. A flood in March 1924 nearly destroyed Kitzmiller. The town bounded back, however, to mark the installation of an electric light system and the paving of its streets with a parade the following year. To stem the flood threat, the Army Corps of Engineers tore down a block of homes and the movie emporium to widen the river and build levees in 1963.
The majority of commercial buildings in Kitzmiller were once found on both sides of River Street which led by way of an iron bridge to the West Virginia side of the river. Of those that remain, the former Kaufmann and Fisher’s Store is probably the oldest (c. 1900). It is two-and-one-half stories tall, with German siding and three doors, one of them recessed and framed by shop front windows. The former Kitzmiller Bank is a two-story brick building built in 1912 on the corner of East Main Street and River Street. Much of the interior remains, including the teller’s grill and the tile floor. There were once nine buildings on the east side of River Street. Only the Kitzmiller Library, a one-story frame building with a false front and plate glass windows, remains from this block of commercial buildings.
Wake up and smell the roses! Nothing is quite as tranquil as a retreat to one of the picturesque botanical gardens of Maryland. Filled to the brim with all kinds of flora, find a beautiful botanical garden near Kitzmiller, MD.
Use stealth when retrieving and replacing this cache. Please hide as well as or better than found.
Access / Hours
- Hours of Operation
- 8 AM to 6 PM / 7 days a week
