Metal Magnet
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- Oct 26, 2010
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Howdy Tnetters. Been a while since I have posted. Honestly, I have been spending my free time getting finds. Who can blame me?
Anyway, I did some research on an area and noticed a house that I hadn't noticed before on old aerials. Well, curiosity got the better of me and I immediately drove to the site. The house is no longer there and has been graded pretty badly. So I thought I would start at the edges since they had a better shot of having stuff. Well, intuition served me well as I got this within 5 minutes of being there. Honestly I was perplexed on what it was.
I thought, "Boy that sure looks like a large cent, but the size doesn't seem right. Then I started thinking gold eagle b/se there were gold glimmers, but it looked sorta junkie. I was at a loss."
I didn't want to scratch it and didn't have water, so I took the agonizing drive back. Ran in and washed it off. I have to admit, I'm blown away. I love it.
Here is a sketch of the store back in the day, and some information:
Forty factories.-Three hundred and sixty-seven hands; value of product, four hundred and forty-five thousand dollars; raw material, 30 per cent. There was a period, when, if one of our citizens wanted a fine hat, Platt Evans was commissioned to buy it in New York or Philadelphia; nothing but cheap hats being at that time made here. Dodd, on Main Street, was the first to engage in the enterprise of manufacturing hats of a quality which should supersede the hats made in the eastern cities, and now the fine hats for the entire market of the west, are made here by Dodd & Co., L. H. Baker & Co., C. B. Camp, Bates & Whitcher, and Sherwood & Chase.
Guess where I will be going tomorrow?
Anyway, I did some research on an area and noticed a house that I hadn't noticed before on old aerials. Well, curiosity got the better of me and I immediately drove to the site. The house is no longer there and has been graded pretty badly. So I thought I would start at the edges since they had a better shot of having stuff. Well, intuition served me well as I got this within 5 minutes of being there. Honestly I was perplexed on what it was.
I thought, "Boy that sure looks like a large cent, but the size doesn't seem right. Then I started thinking gold eagle b/se there were gold glimmers, but it looked sorta junkie. I was at a loss."
I didn't want to scratch it and didn't have water, so I took the agonizing drive back. Ran in and washed it off. I have to admit, I'm blown away. I love it.
Here is a sketch of the store back in the day, and some information:
Forty factories.-Three hundred and sixty-seven hands; value of product, four hundred and forty-five thousand dollars; raw material, 30 per cent. There was a period, when, if one of our citizens wanted a fine hat, Platt Evans was commissioned to buy it in New York or Philadelphia; nothing but cheap hats being at that time made here. Dodd, on Main Street, was the first to engage in the enterprise of manufacturing hats of a quality which should supersede the hats made in the eastern cities, and now the fine hats for the entire market of the west, are made here by Dodd & Co., L. H. Baker & Co., C. B. Camp, Bates & Whitcher, and Sherwood & Chase.
Guess where I will be going tomorrow?
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