Wadsworth Mansion-A Little Bit Of History LbNA #46497
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Add Location| Owner: | Hez, Grumpy and Mona  |
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| Plant date: | Apr 10, 2009 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Middletown |
| County: | Middlesex |
| State: | Connecticut |
| Boxes: | 6 |
| Found by: | Hez, Grumpy and Mona (6) |
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| Last found: | Jul 30, 2022 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFO |
| Last edited: | Jul 31, 2022 |
Please hide boxes well, this is a busy place-thanks! Please do not let young children be the ones to replace the boxes. I'm asking that an adult do so, so that these boxes do not go missing.
THE IS ONLY ONE LOGBOOK, and it's in the last box. PLEASE do not put paper in the boxes that don't have a logbook. Again, there is only one logbook in the last box.
My compass went crazy the day I planted these, so I had to wing it.
Make your way to the Wadsworth Mansion on Wadsworth Street, Middletown, Ct.
Follow the long driveway to the Mansion and park in the first lot, or if that one is full there is additional parking in the rear.
Follow the orange blazes from the parking lot, when you get to the stop sign, cross the road heading toward the fire hydrant. Follow that asphalt drive until you come to the second gravel trail on the left. Take this trail over the wooden bridge, as soon as you cross take the trail to the left which is the orange trail. The blazes are very faint, but the trail is easy to follow. Follow the trail until you come to the first information sign which should read “Brownstone Features on the Estate”. (This particular feature you can see from Laurel Grove Road if you are interested). Face this signboard, look slightly to your left and make your way to that tree by the stonewall. Look behind it for box one. The stamp is cracking, I've added more material to the back, but please be careful when stamping it. I don't know when I will get to carve another.
Continue on orange until you get to the signboard that reads “The Indian Trail”. From that sign take the light blue trail, passing a large dead tree on your left, then another just up ahead on the right. At that tree look partway up the hill on your right to the grey birch(?) with the snaky looking roots. Look behind that tree behind the trapdoor.
Go back to the junction of blue and orange, heading back the way you just came from and going to the sign on the right, read about “The American Revolution at Long Hill”, you’ll see this guy later. Now turn around and take orange through the beautiful carriage road, White Oak Lane. The next sign you will be looking for is “Stone Stiles in a “working landscape”. This is one of the neatest things here I think, but I digress. With your back to the sign look at the wall in front of you. Where there appears to be a slight corner, look low under the longest rock at that corner. There is an open space there where I shoved the box and covered it with two pieces of slate. This is a busy place so please re-hide this box well.
Once again, follow the carriage trail until you come to the sign that says “The Olmsted Carriageway”. From that sign look behind the sign on the other side of the wall to a two sister tree. (The tree has been taken down, but if you go along the backside of the wall you can find it easily enough as a good portion of stump is there. ) The box is behind the stump. If you look at the wall, the tree is almost across from a very low opening in the wall.
Back out to the carriage trail, cross the paved driveway , heading left to the sign for “The Amur Cork Tree”. From the sign, turn around and go back to the stonewall. Go to the right side about one and a half steps and look for the box about one and one half feet up in the wall. Only one small stone guards the opening.
Finally, back out to the paved driveway and go right, making your way down the driveway until you are almost to the two brownstone pillars. Look left into the woods to the large brown rocks. Look between the two largest ones for the American Revolutionary Soldier and the logbook.
Head back towards the mansion and the parking lot.
Hope you enjoyed learning a little about this beautiful place.
THE IS ONLY ONE LOGBOOK, and it's in the last box. PLEASE do not put paper in the boxes that don't have a logbook. Again, there is only one logbook in the last box.
My compass went crazy the day I planted these, so I had to wing it.
Make your way to the Wadsworth Mansion on Wadsworth Street, Middletown, Ct.
Follow the long driveway to the Mansion and park in the first lot, or if that one is full there is additional parking in the rear.
Follow the orange blazes from the parking lot, when you get to the stop sign, cross the road heading toward the fire hydrant. Follow that asphalt drive until you come to the second gravel trail on the left. Take this trail over the wooden bridge, as soon as you cross take the trail to the left which is the orange trail. The blazes are very faint, but the trail is easy to follow. Follow the trail until you come to the first information sign which should read “Brownstone Features on the Estate”. (This particular feature you can see from Laurel Grove Road if you are interested). Face this signboard, look slightly to your left and make your way to that tree by the stonewall. Look behind it for box one. The stamp is cracking, I've added more material to the back, but please be careful when stamping it. I don't know when I will get to carve another.
Continue on orange until you get to the signboard that reads “The Indian Trail”. From that sign take the light blue trail, passing a large dead tree on your left, then another just up ahead on the right. At that tree look partway up the hill on your right to the grey birch(?) with the snaky looking roots. Look behind that tree behind the trapdoor.
Go back to the junction of blue and orange, heading back the way you just came from and going to the sign on the right, read about “The American Revolution at Long Hill”, you’ll see this guy later. Now turn around and take orange through the beautiful carriage road, White Oak Lane. The next sign you will be looking for is “Stone Stiles in a “working landscape”. This is one of the neatest things here I think, but I digress. With your back to the sign look at the wall in front of you. Where there appears to be a slight corner, look low under the longest rock at that corner. There is an open space there where I shoved the box and covered it with two pieces of slate. This is a busy place so please re-hide this box well.
Once again, follow the carriage trail until you come to the sign that says “The Olmsted Carriageway”. From that sign look behind the sign on the other side of the wall to a two sister tree. (The tree has been taken down, but if you go along the backside of the wall you can find it easily enough as a good portion of stump is there. ) The box is behind the stump. If you look at the wall, the tree is almost across from a very low opening in the wall.
Back out to the carriage trail, cross the paved driveway , heading left to the sign for “The Amur Cork Tree”. From the sign, turn around and go back to the stonewall. Go to the right side about one and a half steps and look for the box about one and one half feet up in the wall. Only one small stone guards the opening.
Finally, back out to the paved driveway and go right, making your way down the driveway until you are almost to the two brownstone pillars. Look left into the woods to the large brown rocks. Look between the two largest ones for the American Revolutionary Soldier and the logbook.
Head back towards the mansion and the parking lot.
Hope you enjoyed learning a little about this beautiful place.