CJS -National Colonial Farm Accokeek Foundation #3 Traditional Geocache
CJS -National Colonial Farm Accokeek Foundation #3
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Come on a journey to remember and commemorate the history and
travels of Captain John Smith!
Over four
hundred years ago, Englishman John Smith and a small crew set out
in an open boat to explore the Chesapeake Bay. Between 1607 and
1609 Smith mapped and documented nearly 3,000 miles of the Bay and
its rivers. Along the way he visited many thriving American Indians
communities and gathered information about this “fruitful and
delightsome land.” In December 2006 the U.S. Congress
designated the routes of Smith’s explorations of the
Chesapeake as a national historic trail—the first national
water trail.
Are you ready to follow in the wake of Captain John Smith? Visit
sites along the National Historic Trail and learn about the native
cultures and the natural environment of the 17th-century Chesapeake
through the Captain John Smith Chesapeake Geotrail. The Trail
provides opportunities for you to experience the Bay through the
routes and places associated with Smith’s explorations.
Caches will be located in museums, refuges, parks, and towns in
Virginia, Maryland and Delaware along the rivers and creeks that
Smith and his crew explored four centuries ago.
The Captain John Smith (CJS) Geotrail launched June 4, 2011 with
over 40 caches within Maryland, Virginia and Delaware. A trackable
geo coin will be awarded to the first 400 geocachers, while
supplies last, for locating at least 15 CJS caches. To be eligible
for the coin, geocachers must download a passport from either the
CJS Geotrail or Maryland Geocaching Society website.
Geocachers must find and log at least 15 finds, record the code
word from each cache on their passport and post a picture of
themselve at each cache location. After discovering the 15 required
caches, geocachers may have thier passports validated in person or
via mail at the National Park Service, Chesapeake Bay Office
located at 410 Severn Ave, Suite 314, Annapolis, MD 21403. Please
refer to the passport for complete validation instructions.
Participating in the CJS geotrail is fun and we hope that many
people join in. However, it is not a requirement for logging your
find on this cache once you find the container.
You are seeking a traditional hide. The final is a standard Lock
& Lock, stock with nice swag!
A place of natural beauty, Piscataway Park is home to bald eagles,
beaver, deer, fox, osprey, Eastern Bluebirds, and many other
species. Open daily from dawn to dusk, the public fishing pier,
kayak launch, and riverside trails provide visitors with scenic
views along the shore of the Potomac River and a beautiful view of
George Washington’s Mount Vernon. Piscataway Park covers
approximately 5,000 acres and stretches for six miles from
Piscataway Creek to Marshall Hall on the Potomac River. For more
than 50 years, the Accokeek Foundation has stewarded 200 of those
acres in partnership with the National Park Service. This land
serves as an outdoor classroom for educational programs, research,
agriculture, and conservation projects.
Piscataway Park is at the heart of the Piscataway world. The The
National Colonial Farm, an outdoor living history museum, was
established by the Accokeek Foundation in 1958. The farm depicts
life for an ordinary tobacco planting family—“the
Boltons”—in Prince George’s County in the 1770s.
Historic sites like George Washington’s home, Mount Vernon,
represent what many believe life was like in the colonial period.
However, large plantations were far from the norm. Very few
colonists enjoyed such luxury. The majority were poorer planters,
tenant farmers, indentured servants, and slaves.
Structures located within the colonial site are open to the public
and include a circa 1770 farm dwelling, an 18th century tobacco
barn, a smokehouse, and an out-kitchen. The kitchen garden features
18th century varieties of herbs, flowers, and vegetables. Historic
varieties of field crops such as “Orinoco” tobacco,
“Virginia Gourdseed” corn, and “Red May”
wheat are cultivated on a seasonal basis and are the source for
much of the farm’s heirloom seed stock. The National Colonial
Farm is a recognized leader in the field of historic plant
preservation.
These values emerged out of the experience of living for so long in
this place, and they all point toward the importance of paving the
way for future generations. Thus, Piscataway Park is to this day
the spiritual center of the Piscataway world, and it will remain so
in the
future.
Thanks
to the Bocco's for helping with this hide
and to the Maryland Geocaching Society for assisting with this
project!
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