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New Letterboxes in Thompson Ct. (3)

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New Letterboxes in Thompson Ct. (3)

From: Dan (danzad@netzero.net) | Date: 2003-03-16 02:16:07 UTC
The Bible Series (3)

Planted By: Teach & Preach
Planted: 3/14/03
Time: 1hr to 1 1/2 hrs.
Location: Thompson Ct.

Directions: 171 west through Putnam, take a right onto West Thompson
Rd (It's the first right after the sign the says Welcome to Woodstock
home of the woodstock fair). Follow West Thompson Rd and turn left
onto Ravenelle Rd. Park at the first yellow gate on your right.
Walk around the yellow gate down the paved road. Take your 3 left
opening. It is marked with a yellow blaze on a wooden post. The
path is a dirt road. You'll walk through a big field. The path will
head into a wooded area with another wooden post on your right.
You'll come out to another open area with the lake on your right.
The dirt road leads closer to the lake. You should soon be able to
see the pavilion up the hill. Head there. Past the pavilion staying
on the path. It will lead back into the woods. Go past the yellow
gate. At the T go south. This is a paved road(trail) that a lot of
people bring there dogs on. You'll notice some hugh boulders and
some nice stone walls along the way. There was house back here until
the flood wipe most of them out. There was one house back here until
sometime last year. You'll past wooden post on the left and right.
Look on your left for a stone wall with an opening. At the opening
is a piece of old farming equipment. Go to it. At the wood part of
the equipment take a reading of 335 degrees. In the stone wall
covered with sticks is the John 3:16 Letterbox. Continue walking
paved road. You'll pass a row of wooden post on both sides. Then a
second set of wooden post on both sides. Just past the wooden post
on your right is a hugh dead tree laying on the ground. Look in the
base for the Good News Letterbox under a red brick and sticks.
Continue on the paved road. At the Y go right. At the T go right.
On your left will be a stone wall. At the end of the stone wall
there is 2 wooden post(small pine tree in front of the post) Behind
the wooden post to your left in the corner of the wall is the Jonah &
The Whale Letterbox (This is our first carved stamp). Hope you had
fun. Teach & Preach