Ace and Bees Traditional Cache
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Cache is located in a park/nature area with a history. Finding this cache used to entail a pleasant walk on a wide trail but now some bushwhacking is involved. Bring your dog and don't forget the mosquito repellent. Turn left before the BEES!
This former World War One military airfield is located along the shore of Biscayne Bay. A total of 850 acres of scrubland were acquired by the Army in 1917 along the shore of Biscayne Bay to establish the Army Signal Corps' Cutler Aerial Gunnery Field. Constructed on a rock ridge, the base buildings were situated among pine trees and had a view of the bay to the east. Officers' quarters & mess halls & the home of the commanding officer were built perpendicular to the original Ingraham Highway (which would in succeeding years be renamed Old Cutler Road). In late 1918 the airfield was formally renamed the Victor Chapman Military Reservation after the first American aviator to die in WWI. The First World War ended a mere three days after the renaming ceremony, and construction at Chapman Field Military Reservation ceased. The Secretary of War gave a portion of Chapman Field to the USDA under a revocable lease agreement, to establish an agriculture laboratory. Miami's Chapman Field was reactivated with the advent of WW2, but proved too small for modern military planes. In 1942, the Army air facilities at Chapman Field were made available to the Embry-Riddle Corporation, which was contracted to train civilian & military pilots. The USDA research station still occupies the former housing area of the airfield, with the street grid still recognizable from vintage photos. The area of the former runways has become a golf course - the Deering Bay Yacht & Country Club. The former seaplane operating area along the shore of Biscayne Bay is now the Chapman Field Park.
Source: Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields: Florida - Southern Miami Area; © 2002, © 2004 by Paul Freeman.
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