"My Girl" Letterbox LbNA #17248 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Aug 10, 2005 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Andover |
| County: | Essex |
| State: | Massachusetts |
| Boxes: | 2 |
| Planted by: | WeatherednBoston  |
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| Found by: | SeaDragon (2) |
| Last found: | Apr 24, 2010 |
| Status: | FFFOFFFFFFFFFFFFaFFF |
| Last edited: | Aug 10, 2005 |
WHERE IT IS: Harold Parker State Forest, Andover, MA
TERRAIN: EASY
CLUES: 1 OR EASY
STAMPS: Hand Carved & Mounted..NO INK PADS..WILL ADD SOON
TIME: Less than an hour..not even a mile.
The forest consists of rolling hills, low lying swampy areas, rock outcrops and several ponds. The landform was created by glacial movement, and evidence of glaciers exists today in the form of glacial erratics. The area was inhabited by Pentacook Indians until it was settled by English farmers around 1650. By the mid-nineteenth century agriculture was abandoned, and a new forest grew up. The sites of an 18th century sawmill and homesteads can be found. Tradition has it that many of the homes surrounding the forest were used as Underground Railroad hideouts in the 1850s. Secret doors and chambers can still be seen in local homes. Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe and William Lloyd Garrison were frequent visitors to families in the area.
Harold Parker has lots of trails and parking areas. To find these letterboxes you want to park in the lot at the intersection of Jenkins Rd and Harold Parker Rd. To get directions Id use Map Quest and enter 99 Harold Parker Road.
CLUES: Begin at the Wooden Trail Map Sign that says "Welcome to Harold Parker". You want to take the unpaved trail behind and to the right of that sign. Walk down this "Main Trail" and keep you eyes on the left side of the trail. You will come to a trail on the left with a huge rock in the middle of it...pass by this trail (dont take it) and continue to the next small trail on the left. You will take this trail and walk 10 steps and say "Hi Girl!" Continue on this trail until you reach a brook. In the late summer this brook dries up to nothing. In the winter it flows nicely. Dont cross the brook. Stop at the brooks edge and look to the right. There is a stone wall here. In the MIDDLE of the wall you will find the "My girl" Letterbox located behind a few rocks and some leaves. Please rehide well and cover with leaves really good so as to look natural. (alot of people walk here)
Turn around and back track to the "Main Trail" say "Bye Girl Momma loves ya".
Turn right.. back onto this "Main trail" and take the trail thats immediately on the left. (almost directly across from the "My Girl" trail) Head up this trail until you come to a big rock in the middle of your path. To the left of the rock is a Medium sized pine tree with another rock to its side. Behind this rock is the "My Girl 2" Letterbox. Please rehide well and try to hide the rock its hidden underneath with leaves..it appears someone is taking the rocks and piling them up on this trail to devert water off the trail.
Head back down this trail and take a left back onto the Main Trail back to the parking lot. Thanks for Visiting "My Girl".
TERRAIN: EASY
CLUES: 1 OR EASY
STAMPS: Hand Carved & Mounted..NO INK PADS..WILL ADD SOON
TIME: Less than an hour..not even a mile.
The forest consists of rolling hills, low lying swampy areas, rock outcrops and several ponds. The landform was created by glacial movement, and evidence of glaciers exists today in the form of glacial erratics. The area was inhabited by Pentacook Indians until it was settled by English farmers around 1650. By the mid-nineteenth century agriculture was abandoned, and a new forest grew up. The sites of an 18th century sawmill and homesteads can be found. Tradition has it that many of the homes surrounding the forest were used as Underground Railroad hideouts in the 1850s. Secret doors and chambers can still be seen in local homes. Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe and William Lloyd Garrison were frequent visitors to families in the area.
Harold Parker has lots of trails and parking areas. To find these letterboxes you want to park in the lot at the intersection of Jenkins Rd and Harold Parker Rd. To get directions Id use Map Quest and enter 99 Harold Parker Road.
CLUES: Begin at the Wooden Trail Map Sign that says "Welcome to Harold Parker". You want to take the unpaved trail behind and to the right of that sign. Walk down this "Main Trail" and keep you eyes on the left side of the trail. You will come to a trail on the left with a huge rock in the middle of it...pass by this trail (dont take it) and continue to the next small trail on the left. You will take this trail and walk 10 steps and say "Hi Girl!" Continue on this trail until you reach a brook. In the late summer this brook dries up to nothing. In the winter it flows nicely. Dont cross the brook. Stop at the brooks edge and look to the right. There is a stone wall here. In the MIDDLE of the wall you will find the "My girl" Letterbox located behind a few rocks and some leaves. Please rehide well and cover with leaves really good so as to look natural. (alot of people walk here)
Turn around and back track to the "Main Trail" say "Bye Girl Momma loves ya".
Turn right.. back onto this "Main trail" and take the trail thats immediately on the left. (almost directly across from the "My Girl" trail) Head up this trail until you come to a big rock in the middle of your path. To the left of the rock is a Medium sized pine tree with another rock to its side. Behind this rock is the "My Girl 2" Letterbox. Please rehide well and try to hide the rock its hidden underneath with leaves..it appears someone is taking the rocks and piling them up on this trail to devert water off the trail.
Head back down this trail and take a left back onto the Main Trail back to the parking lot. Thanks for Visiting "My Girl".