Fort Halifax Traditional Cache
Mapachi: Alas, this has yet again gone missing. I am archiving this. Maybe another geocacher will find a good place to hide a cache, in the future.
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This Is located in the Fort Halifax Park. A nice place for a picnic, fishing, or just sitting around doing nothing.
***This cache was originally placed by Hiram357 in September of 2005 and adopted by Mapachi in March of 2009***
About the Fort,
Built at the confluence of the Kennebec and Sabasticook rivers, over twenty years before the American Revolutionary War, Fort Halifax predates the birth of our nation.
The fort was commissioned by Governor Shirley of Massachusetts, but named for the Earl of Halifax, who worked in the Treasury Department in England.
Being part of the Massachusetts colony, Maine was a buffer between the French controlled Canada and the British colonies in America. As an outpost in the wilderness of Maine, Fort Halifax was built at the outset of the conflict now called the French and Indian war.
Over two hundred and thirty years later the fort was reconstructed after a severe flood on April 1, 1987. The rebuilding of the fort included a number of original timbers and has been preserved for future generations as an important landmark in central Maine.
**New cache container and location 5/8/07**
**New cache container and location 6/14/08**
**The new container is smaller, it's a micro now. Due to the muggability of the cache I suggest not leaving TB's (I would just log them as visiting if you want them to have credit for visiting the cache.)**
**3-30-09 Mapachi has replaced the old cache with an even smaller cache at the same coords. If this gets Muggled, I have a couple of ideas to make it hard to find. We'll see!**
REMEMBER, ONLY YOU CAN PREVENT MUGGLED CACHES. PLEASE HIDE IT WELL.
**New container and location 08/09/09.
**New container 10-21-12
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
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