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Playground Series #2 - Cabot Farm Letterbox LbNA #18098 (ARCHIVED)

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:Sep 14, 2005
Location:
City:Salem
County:Essex
State:Massachusetts
Boxes:1
Planted by:Team Randalstik
Found by: Wolfy
Last found:Feb 22, 2008
Status:FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFaam
Last edited:Sep 14, 2005
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DIFFICULTY: Easy
TERRAIN: Easy,
TIME: 15 minutes, 45 minutes with children
STAMP: Handcarved
CHILDREN: It's a playground

This is the first in a series of three letterboxes placed at playgrounds. Each of the three are their own clues because of their distances from each other, but you can still easily do all three in one day even with kids. Do them in order though.

These letterboxes are in very well used spaces, so please be discrete and rehide carefully.

CABOT FARM LETTERBOX
The playground is at the very end of Orne Street which is off North Street (Route 114). There is NO SIGN other than a painted sign on an open gate that says, "CABOT FARM PRIVATE." The playground is not private property, but you cannot drive down the dirt road to park at the playground. Park on Orne Street or one of the other TWO crossroads, Rand Road, or Felt Street.

Once you have parked, walk down the dirt road a block and you will see the playground, which is not that bad at all. Fairly new, with some fun equipment such as a vertical plastic net climber and a wobbly balancing plank, as well as the mandatory slides and platforms. There's even a drinking fountain here but of course it is only connected during the summer.

Once you are finished playing, go to the basketball court and play a game of hopscotch. When you get to the end, look forward and to your right. There's a path into the trees. If you are lucky, you will hear the delicate swish and clink (and maybe a curse) of the golfer.

Go 16 paces up the path. You will pass a branch that has fallen and wedged itself through a crook of a tree at your left. At the end of 16 paces, look to your left. About four paces is a tree with a bunch of rocks piled at it's base. Look under the pile of the rocks that includes a BIG rock.

You might want to stamp at the table across the basketball court. Replace the box carefully. This is a well explored area by kids.