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.
Benjamin Banneker Historical Park and Museum
The Benjamin Banneker Historical Park and Museum is a park commemorating Benjamin Banneker located in a stream valley woodland at the former site of Banneker's farm and residence in Oella, Maryland, between Ellicott City and the City of Baltimore.
The park, which encompasses 138 acres and contains archaeological sites and extensive nature trails, is the largest original African American historical site in the United States. The primary focus of the park is a museum highlighting Banneker's contributions. The museum contains a visitor center that features a collection of Banneker's works and artifacts, a community gallery, a gift shop and a patio garden.
The park contains an 1850s stone farmhouse, now named the "Molly Banneky House".
On November 12, 2009, officials opened a 224 square feet (20.8 m2) replica of Banneker's log cabin on the park grounds, reportedly two days before the 278th anniversary of Banneker's birth.
Source: Commemorations of Benjamin Banneker, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commemorations_of_Benjamin_Banneker&oldid=1140655666
Benjamin Banneker (November 9, 1731 – October 19, 1806) was an African American naturalist, mathematician, astronomer, and almanac author. He was a landowner who also worked as a surveyor and farmer.
Born in Baltimore County, Maryland, to a free African-American mother and a father who had formerly been enslaved, Banneker had little or no formal education and was largely self-taught. He became known for assisting Major Andrew Ellicott in a survey that established the original borders of the District of Columbia, the federal capital district of the United States.
In early 1791, U.S. Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson asked surveyor Major Andrew Ellicott (a son of Joseph Ellicott and a cousin of George Ellicott) to survey an area that would contain a new federal district. Ellicott hired Banneker to assist in the initial survey of the federal district's boundaries, advancing him $60 for travel expenses to Georgetown.
Biographers have stated that Banneker's duties on the survey consisted primarily of making astronomical observations and calculations to establish base points, including one at Jones Point in Alexandria, Virginia, where the survey started and where the south cornerstone was to be located.
Source: Benjamin Banneker, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Benjamin_Banneker&oldid=1141421238.
You do not need to enter the museum to find this cache. You can take either trail off of Banneker's Orchard. The cache is a plastic ammo can. Please rehide as well as found or better.
Access / Hours
- Hours of Operation
- Museum (currently closed as of March 2023)
- Tuesday through Sunday
- 10 AM to 4 PM
- Park
- 7 Days a Week
- Sunrise to Sunset
