Dancer the Husky Visits Colonel Green Traditional Cache
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Dancer the Husky Visits Colonel Green
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Located at Round Hill Beach, Dartmouth, MA. Enjoy the views of Buzzards Bay! Cache is relatively easy to find.
The cache is located on what was once the estate of Colonel Edward Green. Son of America''s richest woman and most famous miser, Hetty Green - The Witch of Wall Street, Colonel Green was a wildly improbable mixture of Robber Barron and Robin Hood, Puritan and libertine. Althougn he claimed to have had trouble spending the income on his income, he created at Round Hill Farm one of the greatest showplaces on the New England coast. A pleasure palace complete with the largest privately owned yacht in the country.
Round Hill was also home to the first private airport with its own runway lights for night landings. He had his own radio station that transmitted by loudspeaker all across Buzzards Bay, and, at the time of his death, he owned (as a "toy") the Charles W. Morgan - the last whale ship to set sail out of New Bedford, Massachusetts.
After his death, the estate was used by MIT for radar research during WWII. The radar dome is still part of the estate and is a protected landmark. Later MIT sold the estate and it became a Jesuit retreat. In the 1980s the estate and mansion were divided up into condominiums and houselots.
As part of his will, Colonel Green donated a portion of his waterfront land to the Town of Dartmouth. This beach is known to the locals as Round Hill Beach. It is open to the public 365 days a year (from 9 am to 4 pm in fall winter and spring). However, during the summer, you need a town parking permit to park near the cache. During beach season, if you don't have a parking sticker, you can walk down the 2 mile road to the cache, or you can wait until after 4 pm and drive down to the cache.
Round Hill Beach is one of Sugar Lump and my favorite places to walk our two Siberian Huskies - Skye and Dancer. It is also our favorite local beach.
(NOTE: Dancer was hit and killed by a car in December, 2005. Skye has a new companion - Tundra. Visit Tundra's cache while you are in the area. It is also located at one of Dartmouth's town beaches.)
Enjoy the cache and the view! Take the time to look at the radar tower. It was part of MIT's Lincoln Lab radar research during the late 40's and 50s. The current owner of the property is petitioning the town of Dartmouth to tear this historic tower down.
If you want more information about Colonel Green and Round Hill, a local author - Barbara Fortin Bedell has written a book "Colonel Edward Howland Robinson Green and the World He Created at Round Hill". You can visit the book's website at www.colonelgreen.com.
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