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CAM 2023-King William's School (St John's College) Mystery Cache

Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Welcome to Cache Across Maryland 2023. This year is the 20th anniversary of CAM. We have made this year a little special with a CAM cache in every county, plus Baltimore City.

This is one of the caches placed for Cache Across Maryland 2023. You must find a minimum of ten caches prior to the picnic held on Saturday, June 3, 2023 in order to receive a free Maryland Geocaching Society CAM geocoin.

Make note of the code word found inside each cache container. You must enter all the symbols into an online decoder in order to print your CAM certificate as well as print a claim form to submit and receive your geocoin at the picnic. More info on CAM is available here.

There are
FIVE MANDATORY COUNTIES. THOSE WILL BE GARRETT, ST MARY'S, CECIL, WORCESTER AND ANNE ARUNDEL. You can choose any of the other five counties to find a minimum of ten CAM caches.
 

 

King William's School

 

There is NO PARKING on campus. Parking may be found along St. John's College on King George Street or College Avenue. The best time to find easy parking is early Saturday and Sunday mornings.

 

King William's School, founded in 1696, opened as a free school in Annapolis "to instruct youth in Arithmetick, Navigation and all useful learning, but chiefly for fitting such as are disposed to study divinity". In 1784, Maryland chartered St. John's College, absorbing King William's School when it opened in 1785. St. John's College is the third-oldest college in the nation after Harvard and College of William and Mary. The Annapolis campus of St. John's College is one of two campuses dedicated to a traditional liberal arts education based on the great books of the Western world. The Santa Fe campus of St. John's College opened in the fall of 1964.

 

 

Francis Scott Key, a lawyer and writer of the Star Spangled Banner, is an alumnus of the college. 

 

 

You can click here for a map of the campus. 

 

At the posted coordinates, you will find several plaques.

N38 58.ABC, W076 29.XYZ

King William's School - Take the year that the two schools merges minus 918 = ABC

The year that Frances Scott Key was in minus 1243 = XYZ

 

Now, go to the French Soldiers Monument and enjoy your walk through campus. What is the 64th word of the Sons of the Revolution plaque? Do NOT count the numbers. ___ ___ ___ ___ (This is the combination to the lock.)

 

You are ready to go find and sign the cache. 

 

A day you may want to avoid: April 15, 2023 - Since 1982, Johnnies have faced off against the Middies (Midshipmen of the U.S. Naval Academy) in a friendly rivalry for the Annapolis Cup and bragging rights as the best croquet team in Annapolis.

 

Access / Hours

  • Hours of Operation
    • Dawn to Dusk  / 7 days a week

 

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

gjrrg gjrrg

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
-------------------------
N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)