Thank you to S A M for allowing me to adopt this oldie!
Original description from 2003:
In Swan Harbor Farm Park in Harford County.
This is one of two caches that I placed in this park. Medium size container,, You may need boots, depending on your approach. Check out the history at the park headquarters.
Update in 2022
I recently adopted this cache so I figured a visit was called for. I walked from parking through the cornfield to the edge of the woods, which brought me within about 110 feet of GZ. There was mostly clear spot for me to get into the woods and a path that led me to GZ. I was here about three years ago when I avenged a DNF after Drew136 replaced the container (Thanks!) Not much has changed here, more thorns, lots of roots and holes to put your foot throuigh. "Interesting" place. I wonder how it must have looked when S A M first came back here 19 years ago to put the cache here?
I easily found the container that was here, with the cracked lid and water inside. I replaced it with a cache the exact size and shape of a large PB jar, painted rust brown. There is a separate container inside with a log. The container is tethered to a root, so it should not wander off.
This cache is number four on the list of Harford County's oldest caches. I guess you could say it is tied for #3, as the other oldie in this park, Swan Harbor Stumper, was published at the same time. Please treat this cache with the respect that it deserves.
For the cacher who complained about the tick infested area: You're in Central Maryland. As soon as you leave a sidewalk, you are in a tick infested area.
Hint still applies.
About Swan Harbor Farm Park:
Situated on over five hundred acres, Swan Harbor Farm, a stately home on the Chesapeake Bay, boasts a long and proud history. In the 1700’s, the home was owned by several generations of the Giles family. The most significant owner, however, was John Adlum. Mr. Adlum purchased the farm from Thomas Giles in 1797. From Swan Harbor Farm, John Adlum pioneered wine making in Maryland. In 1809, Mr. Adlum sent a bottle of his fine burgundy to his good friend, Thomas Jefferson. Mr. Jefferson was so impressed with the quality of the wine that he ordered 165 cuttings from Adlum’s vines to be planted at Monticello. After the Adlum era and a series of short-term ownerships, John Kenney of Washington, D.C., bought the property in 1951. He added a pool, tennis courts, greenhouse, kitchen-pantry wing and a dining room to suit his upper class lifestyle. In 1986, Mr. Kenney conveyed 520 acres of Swan Harbor Farm to Johns Hopkins University. The University purchased an additional two acres along Oakington Road in 1990. Harford County Department of Parks and Recreation purchased Swan Harbor Farm in 1994, as part of the State of Maryland’s Program Open Space. The grounds are open to the public dawn to dusk. The house and tent areas are used extensively from April through October for weddings and other events.
NOTE (1/27/24): Parking coordinates have been revised