Native Son #12, Mark Osowski LbNA #15126
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Add Location| Owner: | the lazy letterboxer  |
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| Plant date: | May 15, 2005 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Leominster |
| County: | Worcester |
| State: | Massachusetts |
| Boxes: | 2 |
| Found by: | J.E.S.S. |
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| Last found: | Mar 16, 2012 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF |
| Last edited: | May 15, 2005 |
2011 Update These trails are not maintained by the group managing them and several key landmarks have changed. Please consider this box unavailable until further notice!
Take Pleasant Street out of downtown Leominster and stay on it for a little over 3 miles (at about 2 miles you will pass the historic Number 6 School House on the right at the intersection of Pleasant, Union and Wachusett Streets). After you pass the Sholan Farm stand look for a “Speed Limit 35” sign immediately followed by a rock-ringed parking lot on the right hand side of the road. Pull into this lot and park.
The trail you seek is across the street. Go right out of the parking lot and walk along the road until you see a telephone pole on the opposite side of the street. The entrance to the trail is just beyond that marked by two stones. Enter and walk along until you get to the blue blazed trail that goes into the woods. Stay on this blue blazed trail (at one point the trail veers to the right). Walk along for about 8-10 minutes. Stop when you come to a spot where an unmarked trail comes in from the left and there is a stone wall on the right. Look to the stone wall and see a shag bark hickory tree that stands directly in front of the wall. Go behind the wall and move a stone that shelters Native Son #12—Mark Osowski. Mark passed away in 2004 at the age of 41. He was an assistant coach for the Cleveland Cavaliers Basketball Team. Every summer he returned to Leominster to run the Mark Osowski Basketball Camp for Boys and Girls.
But wait! Aren’t you missing something? Go back on the trail and continue on, passing 3 more blue blazed trees on the right. When you come to the fourth blazed tree, with the twin trunks, stop, turn around and walk back about 18 steps to a point just before another shag bark hickory tree. Look to the wall and find a somewhat flat stone on the top that hides what you’re looking for (can’t you just hear Johnny Most saying “that letterboxer stole the ball!! Be nice and put it back where you found it) There is no log book in this container. Go back the way you came.
Take Pleasant Street out of downtown Leominster and stay on it for a little over 3 miles (at about 2 miles you will pass the historic Number 6 School House on the right at the intersection of Pleasant, Union and Wachusett Streets). After you pass the Sholan Farm stand look for a “Speed Limit 35” sign immediately followed by a rock-ringed parking lot on the right hand side of the road. Pull into this lot and park.
The trail you seek is across the street. Go right out of the parking lot and walk along the road until you see a telephone pole on the opposite side of the street. The entrance to the trail is just beyond that marked by two stones. Enter and walk along until you get to the blue blazed trail that goes into the woods. Stay on this blue blazed trail (at one point the trail veers to the right). Walk along for about 8-10 minutes. Stop when you come to a spot where an unmarked trail comes in from the left and there is a stone wall on the right. Look to the stone wall and see a shag bark hickory tree that stands directly in front of the wall. Go behind the wall and move a stone that shelters Native Son #12—Mark Osowski. Mark passed away in 2004 at the age of 41. He was an assistant coach for the Cleveland Cavaliers Basketball Team. Every summer he returned to Leominster to run the Mark Osowski Basketball Camp for Boys and Girls.
But wait! Aren’t you missing something? Go back on the trail and continue on, passing 3 more blue blazed trees on the right. When you come to the fourth blazed tree, with the twin trunks, stop, turn around and walk back about 18 steps to a point just before another shag bark hickory tree. Look to the wall and find a somewhat flat stone on the top that hides what you’re looking for (can’t you just hear Johnny Most saying “that letterboxer stole the ball!! Be nice and put it back where you found it) There is no log book in this container. Go back the way you came.