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| "Warning:
Letterboxing is addicting and can be GOOD for your health!" |
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| History of Letterboxing: |
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In 1854 a Victorian gentleman by the name of James Perrot of Chagford was making a customary walk in Dartmoor, England one day he decided to place his *business card* in a glass bottle. The walk was refuted to be long and difficult; yet many people customarily made this journey. He placed the bottle in the banks of the Cranmere Pool in Dartmoor, England. He encouraged visitors who had found this bottle to do the same with their card. Thus being a way of proving that they had made the long journey along the aforementioned route through Dartmoor. Since that historic day, letterboxing has grown in popularity throughout England. |
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In April of 1998, the Smithsonian Magazine wrote an article entitled
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