Underground Railroad LbNA #4276 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | Midnight Boxer  |
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| Plant date: | Nov 29, 2002 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Ridgely |
| County: | Caroline |
| State: | Maryland |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Found by: | Not yet found! |
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| Last found: | N/A |
| Status: | aaaaaa |
| Last edited: | Nov 29, 2002 |
Box: Originally placed by ForestFrogFamily Nov. 2002.
Status:
-Clues are severely out of date, all landmarks have changed
-3-in-1 tree where box was has been cut down and chopped-up
-Box has been lost to letterboxing history.
** The hike is great and very scenic. If you are interested:
-Follow original clues until you get creekside (ignore Post#'s)
-3-in-1 tree was on the right side of the trail (now a stump)
Help: If anyone has an imprint of this stamp and could send it (email, snail-mail,...), I would be most appreciative. This would enable the restoration and re-release of this box.
April 2008
Midnight Boxer
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Original, unedited clues:
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Location: Tuckahoe State Park, Queen Anne, MD
Difficulty: Easy, 3/4 mile nature loop.
Directions: For directions to Tuckahoe State Park, see the Lost Among The Pines Letterbox clues. From the Lake Trail parking area, continue around the loop and return to the stop sign. Go straight, passing the Camp Fire Area sign on the left, to a marked parking area also on the left, with a sign for the Lore of the Land Nature Trail (yellow blaze). This is probably less than 1/2 mile from the Lake Trail, so you could walk it if you like.
Notes: Hunting is allowed at Tuckahoe State Park, but not in the area in which this trail is located. Beware of thorns near the box and poison ivy throughout the park. Also, please note that this trail takes some interesting turns ... please follow directions carefully.
Clues: From the Tuckahoe State Park website: "Although officially undocumented, it is widely believed that Tuckahoe Creek was part of Harriet Tubman's Underground Railroad, a secret network of safe houses where runaway slaves could stay on their journey north to freedom. Tubman, known as the Moses of her people, freed herself from slavery, and then returned several times to the slave states to lead her family and approximately 300 other slaves to freedom in the north. Another famous slave and abolitionist, Frederick Douglass, was born in a log cabin located along Tuckahoe Creek."
Head out on the Lore of the Land Nature Trail. Past post number 2 is a post with a yellow arrow pointing left ... take that left into the forest. After post number 5, the trail takes another marked left turn. Just after post number 6, notice a double yellow blaze on a tree to the right ... make a right turn at this tree. (Or if you wish, continue straight to post number 8 where a plaque marks a champion tree, and then double back to the turn at post 6.) From post number 10, take 16 steps ahead on the trail to a 3-in-1 tree on the right. The Underground Railroad Letterbox has found its safe house under bark and sticks behind this tree, where it can hear the sounds of Tuckahoe Creek.
At post number 12, the trail takes another marked left turn, and you may take it to complete the nature trail. However, please know that the tired Forest Frogs instead went straight past post 12, which led us to post 5, and we returned to the parking area the way we came. Therefore, we can't describe any weird turns that may occur on the rest of the trail, but it did look nice.
Status:
-Clues are severely out of date, all landmarks have changed
-3-in-1 tree where box was has been cut down and chopped-up
-Box has been lost to letterboxing history.
** The hike is great and very scenic. If you are interested:
-Follow original clues until you get creekside (ignore Post#'s)
-3-in-1 tree was on the right side of the trail (now a stump)
Help: If anyone has an imprint of this stamp and could send it (email, snail-mail,...), I would be most appreciative. This would enable the restoration and re-release of this box.
April 2008
Midnight Boxer
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Original, unedited clues:
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Location: Tuckahoe State Park, Queen Anne, MD
Difficulty: Easy, 3/4 mile nature loop.
Directions: For directions to Tuckahoe State Park, see the Lost Among The Pines Letterbox clues. From the Lake Trail parking area, continue around the loop and return to the stop sign. Go straight, passing the Camp Fire Area sign on the left, to a marked parking area also on the left, with a sign for the Lore of the Land Nature Trail (yellow blaze). This is probably less than 1/2 mile from the Lake Trail, so you could walk it if you like.
Notes: Hunting is allowed at Tuckahoe State Park, but not in the area in which this trail is located. Beware of thorns near the box and poison ivy throughout the park. Also, please note that this trail takes some interesting turns ... please follow directions carefully.
Clues: From the Tuckahoe State Park website: "Although officially undocumented, it is widely believed that Tuckahoe Creek was part of Harriet Tubman's Underground Railroad, a secret network of safe houses where runaway slaves could stay on their journey north to freedom. Tubman, known as the Moses of her people, freed herself from slavery, and then returned several times to the slave states to lead her family and approximately 300 other slaves to freedom in the north. Another famous slave and abolitionist, Frederick Douglass, was born in a log cabin located along Tuckahoe Creek."
Head out on the Lore of the Land Nature Trail. Past post number 2 is a post with a yellow arrow pointing left ... take that left into the forest. After post number 5, the trail takes another marked left turn. Just after post number 6, notice a double yellow blaze on a tree to the right ... make a right turn at this tree. (Or if you wish, continue straight to post number 8 where a plaque marks a champion tree, and then double back to the turn at post 6.) From post number 10, take 16 steps ahead on the trail to a 3-in-1 tree on the right. The Underground Railroad Letterbox has found its safe house under bark and sticks behind this tree, where it can hear the sounds of Tuckahoe Creek.
At post number 12, the trail takes another marked left turn, and you may take it to complete the nature trail. However, please know that the tired Forest Frogs instead went straight past post 12, which led us to post 5, and we returned to the parking area the way we came. Therefore, we can't describe any weird turns that may occur on the rest of the trail, but it did look nice.