America the Beautiful...Virginia LbNA #48150
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Add Location| Owner: | Flutterby Flew By  |
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| Plant date: | Jun 14, 2009 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Columbia |
| County: | Tolland |
| State: | Connecticut |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Found by: | Personboys |
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| Last found: | Mar 22, 2012 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFa |
| Last edited: | Jun 14, 2009 |
#46 Virginia
by Gallant Rogue
Rec Park
Hennequin Road
Columbia
(stamp size 3 1/2 x 6)
Make your way to Rec Park on Hennequin Road in Columbia. Drive all the way to the back and park near the play scape.
**Waterproof shoes would be a good choice as the beginning of this trail can be quite wet at times.**
Pups are allowed, but be sure to have them on a leash.
You should bring black, red, green and yellow ink to achieve the look in the log book for this one.
After parking, start along the gravel path that is to the right of the play scape and has a large rock with a plaque on it at the beginning. Bear left with the path and then right into the woods on the white blazed trail.
Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the New World
Walk a short distance and you will see a yellow blazed trail on your right.
Go right on yellow here.
Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, looks exactly like a town from colonial times. Costumed guides show visitors how people lived in early America. Many of the buildings there now were actually built in colonial days.
Pass a wooden sign on your left, stay on yellow and soon pass a stone wall also on the left.
The College of William and Mary, founded in 1693 in Williamsburg, is the nation's second oldest institution of higher education, after Harvard.
Following the trail, bear left just before reaching the power lines.
Along with Maryland, Virginia borders the Chesapeake Bay, the state's largest body of water. It is a major wintering area for water birds.
Continue on and just before coming to the power lines again as well as a "T" intersection, stop.
More U.S. presidents have hailed from Virginia than any other state—George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, Zachary Taylor and Woodrow Wilson.
Turn around and walk back ~73 steps to a stone wall on the right.
British General Charles Cornwallis surrendered to the United States in Virginia after the Battle of Yorktown in 1781, effectively ending the American Revolution.
Before passing it, turn right and walk ~ 15 steps along the wall.
In Arlington, Virginia, you can find the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, which honors the anonymous fallen of all of America's wars.
Stop here. Look low in the wall, under a large rock's overhang and between two trees. There you will find the very beautiful Virginia letterbox carved by Gallant Rogue.
After stamping in and re-hiding well, you can retrace your steps back to your vehicle.
~Planted by Flutterby~
by Gallant Rogue
Rec Park
Hennequin Road
Columbia
(stamp size 3 1/2 x 6)
Make your way to Rec Park on Hennequin Road in Columbia. Drive all the way to the back and park near the play scape.
**Waterproof shoes would be a good choice as the beginning of this trail can be quite wet at times.**
Pups are allowed, but be sure to have them on a leash.
You should bring black, red, green and yellow ink to achieve the look in the log book for this one.
After parking, start along the gravel path that is to the right of the play scape and has a large rock with a plaque on it at the beginning. Bear left with the path and then right into the woods on the white blazed trail.
Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the New World
Walk a short distance and you will see a yellow blazed trail on your right.
Go right on yellow here.
Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, looks exactly like a town from colonial times. Costumed guides show visitors how people lived in early America. Many of the buildings there now were actually built in colonial days.
Pass a wooden sign on your left, stay on yellow and soon pass a stone wall also on the left.
The College of William and Mary, founded in 1693 in Williamsburg, is the nation's second oldest institution of higher education, after Harvard.
Following the trail, bear left just before reaching the power lines.
Along with Maryland, Virginia borders the Chesapeake Bay, the state's largest body of water. It is a major wintering area for water birds.
Continue on and just before coming to the power lines again as well as a "T" intersection, stop.
More U.S. presidents have hailed from Virginia than any other state—George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, Zachary Taylor and Woodrow Wilson.
Turn around and walk back ~73 steps to a stone wall on the right.
British General Charles Cornwallis surrendered to the United States in Virginia after the Battle of Yorktown in 1781, effectively ending the American Revolution.
Before passing it, turn right and walk ~ 15 steps along the wall.
In Arlington, Virginia, you can find the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, which honors the anonymous fallen of all of America's wars.
Stop here. Look low in the wall, under a large rock's overhang and between two trees. There you will find the very beautiful Virginia letterbox carved by Gallant Rogue.
After stamping in and re-hiding well, you can retrace your steps back to your vehicle.
~Planted by Flutterby~