Betterton - Former MML Geotrail Traditional Geocache

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Hidden : 1/4/2013
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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The Maryland Municipal League Geotrail 2013
Celebrating Maryland’s Cities and Towns.
Betterton - MML District 2

The 2013 MML geotrail and geocoin promotion ended on April 1, 2014. We would like to thank everyone for participating and a special thanks to the Maryland Geocaching Society members for all their support. Be sure to visit the MGS website at www.mdgps.org for the latest news on geocaching in Maryland.

For updated information, visit the MML web site at MML link or the Maryland Geocaching Society web site at MGS Link
You are seeking a traditional cache located near the town office. Please no night caching!
Betterton’s location at the head of the Chesapeake Bay is the key to its past and its future. Betterton was once a thriving beach resort and is located on the site of an early farm named 'Fish Hall'. With the coming of the steamboat, Betterton developed as a resort. The Turner family was a main force in this development and the town was named for Richard Turner's wife, Elizabeth Betterton.

Overlooking the confluence of the Sassafras, Elk, and Susquehanna Rivers and taking advantage of a topography that provides easy access to the Bay via a broad sandy beach, Betterton was founded as a fishing village in the mid 1700s. A century later, the development of the steamboat and the digging of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal found Betterton ideally situated as a point of shipment for the produce of the Eastern Shore to markets in Baltimore, Wilmington, and Philadelphia. When it was incorporated in 1906, Betterton was a bustling and prosperous commercial center with dozens of hotels and commercial establishments and daily scheduled steamship service by several lines. Ericsson Avenue, a major thoroughfare, was named after the Ericsson Steamship Line, which in turn took its name from John Ericsson, the inventor of the screw propeller. It was that invention that made steamship service possible through the C&D Canal, a waterway that was too narrow for paddlewheel vessels.

As the century progressed, the easy water access and established hostelries made Betterton a natural summer resort for people seeking to escape the hot, humid, pre-air conditioned cities. Betterton evolved into a beach resort, with arcades, amusements, restaurants, and a regular clientele. But the same location that was convenient for travel by steamship became remote and inconvenient when it became possible to travel by automobile over paved roads and the Bay Bridge to ocean beaches. The resort economy of Betterton perished. Remnants of the hotels and summer cottages still provide an interesting architectural variety to the streetscape, but Betterton’s future again lies in its location. The broad vista from the headlands across the Susquehanna flats is matched by very few places on the Bay. The fishing beach has become a public park and swimming beach.

The three rivers keep the waters fresh enough to repel the stinging nettles that are so troublesome elsewhere on the Bay.

The Town of Betterton thanks you for visiting!

Thanks to EvansPack for helping with this hide!
Thanks to the Calvertcachers, Snurt, and the Maryland Geocaching Society for assisting with this project!

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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