Native Son #11--Chief Sholan LbNA #3969
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Add Location| Owner: | the lazy letterboxer  |
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| Plant date: | May 20, 2003 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Leominster |
| County: | Worcester |
| State: | Massachusetts |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Found by: | Nairon |
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| Last found: | Dec 10, 2016 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF |
| Last edited: | May 20, 2003 |
Native Son #11—Chief Sholan
Leominster, MA
Worcester County
May 20th, 2003
Planted by Deanne Bellefeuille-Besnia (the lazy letterboxer)
PLEASE NOTE: The trail that this box is on has sustained various changes, both from the ice storm of 12/2008 and a change in the trail system at Sholan Farm. These clues DO NOT reflect those changes and, therefore, may be next to impossible to find....that being said, however, a trail map of this area can be found at http://www.leominster-ma.gov/recreation_department_park_sites.htm
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 and 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 with a kiosk on the right hand side of the road. Pull into this lot and park. This trail is blazed through to the Monoosnoc Ridge Trail where Native Sons 1-4 await your visit.
Head west through a meadow to the wooded trail. As you descend the hill on this trail you will pass by a trail on the left, stay straight. The trail will eventually bear left. Continue on until you reach an outcropping of white quartz as the trail bends again. At this point take 20 steps, stop and look to the right. Just before a large outcropping of quartz there are two granite pieces with a narrow opening between them. Walk through and look down on the right for the shelter that houses Native Son #11--Chief Sholan of the Nashua Indian Tribe. Settlers of “New Lancaster”acquired land from Chief Sholan that was later divided, a part of which became Leominster, my hometown.
The image on the stamp for this letterbox was taken from a cave painting.
Leominster, MA
Worcester County
May 20th, 2003
Planted by Deanne Bellefeuille-Besnia (the lazy letterboxer)
PLEASE NOTE: The trail that this box is on has sustained various changes, both from the ice storm of 12/2008 and a change in the trail system at Sholan Farm. These clues DO NOT reflect those changes and, therefore, may be next to impossible to find....that being said, however, a trail map of this area can be found at http://www.leominster-ma.gov/recreation_department_park_sites.htm
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 and 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 with a kiosk on the right hand side of the road. Pull into this lot and park. This trail is blazed through to the Monoosnoc Ridge Trail where Native Sons 1-4 await your visit.
Head west through a meadow to the wooded trail. As you descend the hill on this trail you will pass by a trail on the left, stay straight. The trail will eventually bear left. Continue on until you reach an outcropping of white quartz as the trail bends again. At this point take 20 steps, stop and look to the right. Just before a large outcropping of quartz there are two granite pieces with a narrow opening between them. Walk through and look down on the right for the shelter that houses Native Son #11--Chief Sholan of the Nashua Indian Tribe. Settlers of “New Lancaster”acquired land from Chief Sholan that was later divided, a part of which became Leominster, my hometown.
The image on the stamp for this letterbox was taken from a cave painting.