Porter Preserve LbNA #1459
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Add Location| Owner: | Amymisha  |
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| Plant date: | Jun 26, 2002 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Boothbay |
| County: | Lincoln |
| State: | Maine |
| Boxes: | 3 |
| Found by: | sunnyside seeker |
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| Last found: | Apr 13, 2008 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFFFFaFFFFFFFU |
| Last edited: | Jun 26, 2002 |
I have recently adopted these boxes. If they are yours, please email me at amymisha@dialmaine.com.
Amy
Last checked on 10/19/2003- all OK!
Planted By: Shipwright
Planted On: 26 June, 2002
These are the first letterboxes that I have planted, and I have chosen lovely Porter Preserve, on Barters Island, ME, as their location. Porter Preserve is part of the Boothbay Region Land Trust, a network of land and wildlife preserves throughout the Boothbay
Peninsula in Lincoln Country, Maine. Despite being located on an island, the Preserve is easily accessed by automobile. Here are the `official' directions to the Preserve, published by the Land Trust trustees:
DIRECTIONS:
"Travel north on Route 27; take a left at the monument in Boothbay Center onto Corey Lane. Proceed 0.3 of a mile. Bear right at the fork onto Barters Island Road and travel 2.2 miles crossing two bridges; bear left on West Side road, then take a left on Kimballtown Road. Proceed 0.5 of a mile and turn left at the fork onto a dirt road. The Porter Preserve is 0.1 of a mile up the dirt road on the right. There is a parking area on the right. Please do not block the road as it is used by other property owners."
CLUES:
From the Map-Kiosk in the parking area, take the White Trail going Northwest. You will come to a low wall of fieldstones. Follow the wall due South, passing four tall trees sprouting barbed-wire branches. The first Porter Preserve Letterbox is among the fieldstones at the southern base of the fourth tree.
Return to the White Trail and follow it going Northeast, following it through a grove thick with white birches and past a great uprooted tree on the left. You will come next to a large white pine tree with spreading branches that bears the white blaze of the trail - look for a white triangle painted upon the trunk of a nearby oak. At 340 degrees from this oak there is a forked tree; the second letterbox looks out at the water at this forked tree's base.
Return to the White Trail, going South. You will come to an oak tree that guards a four-way intersection of paths - go East, past a bevy of ferns and an old granite water-well on the right. When you come to a fork in the trails, follow the Blue Trail to the Southwest, coming to a vista overlooking the water. At 120 degrees from the granite boulder on which you stand, pick up the Blue Trail once more and, where rock meet loam, seek a small woodpile through the trees at 160 degrees. The third letterbox is in the woodpile on the western side, just below the topmost row of logs.
From here, return to the White Trail and follow it through the forest back to the parking area.
Amy
Last checked on 10/19/2003- all OK!
Planted By: Shipwright
Planted On: 26 June, 2002
These are the first letterboxes that I have planted, and I have chosen lovely Porter Preserve, on Barters Island, ME, as their location. Porter Preserve is part of the Boothbay Region Land Trust, a network of land and wildlife preserves throughout the Boothbay
Peninsula in Lincoln Country, Maine. Despite being located on an island, the Preserve is easily accessed by automobile. Here are the `official' directions to the Preserve, published by the Land Trust trustees:
DIRECTIONS:
"Travel north on Route 27; take a left at the monument in Boothbay Center onto Corey Lane. Proceed 0.3 of a mile. Bear right at the fork onto Barters Island Road and travel 2.2 miles crossing two bridges; bear left on West Side road, then take a left on Kimballtown Road. Proceed 0.5 of a mile and turn left at the fork onto a dirt road. The Porter Preserve is 0.1 of a mile up the dirt road on the right. There is a parking area on the right. Please do not block the road as it is used by other property owners."
CLUES:
From the Map-Kiosk in the parking area, take the White Trail going Northwest. You will come to a low wall of fieldstones. Follow the wall due South, passing four tall trees sprouting barbed-wire branches. The first Porter Preserve Letterbox is among the fieldstones at the southern base of the fourth tree.
Return to the White Trail and follow it going Northeast, following it through a grove thick with white birches and past a great uprooted tree on the left. You will come next to a large white pine tree with spreading branches that bears the white blaze of the trail - look for a white triangle painted upon the trunk of a nearby oak. At 340 degrees from this oak there is a forked tree; the second letterbox looks out at the water at this forked tree's base.
Return to the White Trail, going South. You will come to an oak tree that guards a four-way intersection of paths - go East, past a bevy of ferns and an old granite water-well on the right. When you come to a fork in the trails, follow the Blue Trail to the Southwest, coming to a vista overlooking the water. At 120 degrees from the granite boulder on which you stand, pick up the Blue Trail once more and, where rock meet loam, seek a small woodpile through the trees at 160 degrees. The third letterbox is in the woodpile on the western side, just below the topmost row of logs.
From here, return to the White Trail and follow it through the forest back to the parking area.