"Old" Fort Hill LbNA #16956 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | N/A |
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| Plant date: | Apr 28, 2003 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Eastham |
| County: | Barnstable |
| State: | Massachusetts |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | Mumma & Bunny Boy
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| Found by: | 3 Crows |
| Last found: | Nov 7, 2009 |
| Status: | FFFFFaFFFFaFFFFFFaaa |
| Last edited: | Apr 28, 2003 |
This box was originally placed 6/29/02 by the5coolcats. I found it in the basement archives & went to check it out when I went to get the new Fort Hill box.
It was such a great box to find, it seemed a shame to have it sitting in the basement. I have decided to adopt it and re-post it here for all to enjoy.
Have fun!
Mumma & Bunny Boy =D
Here are the original clues as found in the basement:
Placed 6/29/02
By the5coolcats
Trail:Easy
Fort Hill is located in the Cape Cod National Seashore and is one of
the more beautiful spots in the area. Look for Fort Hill Rd on the
right as you travel RT 6 east in Eastham. If you reach the Salt Pond
Visitors Center you've gone too far. A short distance up Fort Hill Rd
you will find Edward Penniman's 1868 mansion. Captain Penniman sailed
around the world seven times in search of whales and his fortune
before retiring here in 1884. Park in a small lot just beyond the
house to the left before walking back to the house to begin your
search.
The Fort Hill Letterbox
You will find
If you keep eyes open
And clear the mind.
Stand first in the mouth
Of the beast from the sea
Look to the Captain's house
Aye' a clue there shall be!
A cupola sits high
Where Penniman would go
The number of windows
You surley must know.
Next turn from the house
To the lot you must go
To start up the trail
To the swamp down below.
Walk if you will
To a fork in the trail
Take a sinister turn
Choose well lest you fail.
At the foot of a hill
A boardwalk you'll meet
Then reach a lone bench
Now count it's feet.
Ahead lies a fork
A turn sinister no doubt
By now a clue
You must figure out.
Follow this path
To warts on a Y
Then 60 paces more
To take clamshells up high.
Bear starboard now mate
Till the benches you spy
Looking out toward the marsh
The sea and the sky.
The number of benches
Now that's a clue
Its time to move on
But remember this too.
Along up the trail
You might sharpen a spear
No time for that now
Your prize is quite near!
In a gazebo you'll stand
The center if you please
Facing due North
Turn to 180 degrees.
From the edge of concrete
Your paces will fall
The stride of a man
Roughly six feet tall.
Take windows and benches
And add them to feet
26 paces more till
A reward you will meet.
Look to the right
A sunny pin you will spy
Search carefully now
The treasure's nearby!
The stamp is for bunnies
That live on this hill
Walk quietly at dusk
And see them you will.
To finish your walk
Up the trail you should go
To the top of Fort Hill
Its quite beautiful you know.
Sit on the bench
Think back on the chase
And how you came here
To this most special place!
Please contact mummaandbunnyboy@yahoo.com with any problems or questions. Updates would be appreciated, as I don't get up that way very often.
***This box is also posted @ www.atlasquest.com***
It was such a great box to find, it seemed a shame to have it sitting in the basement. I have decided to adopt it and re-post it here for all to enjoy.
Have fun!
Mumma & Bunny Boy =D
Here are the original clues as found in the basement:
Placed 6/29/02
By the5coolcats
Trail:Easy
Fort Hill is located in the Cape Cod National Seashore and is one of
the more beautiful spots in the area. Look for Fort Hill Rd on the
right as you travel RT 6 east in Eastham. If you reach the Salt Pond
Visitors Center you've gone too far. A short distance up Fort Hill Rd
you will find Edward Penniman's 1868 mansion. Captain Penniman sailed
around the world seven times in search of whales and his fortune
before retiring here in 1884. Park in a small lot just beyond the
house to the left before walking back to the house to begin your
search.
The Fort Hill Letterbox
You will find
If you keep eyes open
And clear the mind.
Stand first in the mouth
Of the beast from the sea
Look to the Captain's house
Aye' a clue there shall be!
A cupola sits high
Where Penniman would go
The number of windows
You surley must know.
Next turn from the house
To the lot you must go
To start up the trail
To the swamp down below.
Walk if you will
To a fork in the trail
Take a sinister turn
Choose well lest you fail.
At the foot of a hill
A boardwalk you'll meet
Then reach a lone bench
Now count it's feet.
Ahead lies a fork
A turn sinister no doubt
By now a clue
You must figure out.
Follow this path
To warts on a Y
Then 60 paces more
To take clamshells up high.
Bear starboard now mate
Till the benches you spy
Looking out toward the marsh
The sea and the sky.
The number of benches
Now that's a clue
Its time to move on
But remember this too.
Along up the trail
You might sharpen a spear
No time for that now
Your prize is quite near!
In a gazebo you'll stand
The center if you please
Facing due North
Turn to 180 degrees.
From the edge of concrete
Your paces will fall
The stride of a man
Roughly six feet tall.
Take windows and benches
And add them to feet
26 paces more till
A reward you will meet.
Look to the right
A sunny pin you will spy
Search carefully now
The treasure's nearby!
The stamp is for bunnies
That live on this hill
Walk quietly at dusk
And see them you will.
To finish your walk
Up the trail you should go
To the top of Fort Hill
Its quite beautiful you know.
Sit on the bench
Think back on the chase
And how you came here
To this most special place!
Please contact mummaandbunnyboy@yahoo.com with any problems or questions. Updates would be appreciated, as I don't get up that way very often.
***This box is also posted @ www.atlasquest.com***