Anticipated Hunt in the Morning - Wish Us Luck

[Benbuck6]

My boys (6 and 9) are going with me in the morning to a community 30 miles away to md. They can't wait to dig. They went on a practice hunt today in the yard and they were really into the making and filling holes (the part i hate ). So they are PUMPED!!! And well so I am I. It is my boyhood hometown. The place I know better than any other. The place I know amost every inch of. Not only that, my mom has always been somewhat of a town historian - so I have always heard the stories growing up, which included the location of the events. Like most people dont know where the old HS was before it was moved 50 years ago. Or which park is over 100 years old or that not 200 yards from my Mom's house is the old national guard armory and before that in 1944 it was used to house German and Italian prisoners of war that worked the cotton fields. I know that I buried quarters as a kid in my front yard under an oak tree to hide them from my older brother, although not silver - it would be neat for my kids to find one and dig it up. This one is going to fun.

 

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[m bryan]

May the "Force" be with you.....maybe they will have beginners luck!

 

[Benbuck6]

Ok - I don't think anyone has been here b/c there is a lot of trash and very obvious clad location not dug. Debating on digging everything and coming back once trash cleared. I hope I can pull some dates off this trash to see how old good stuff could be

 

[Toby1858]

Yip, a new site I like to dig almost everything just to date it. Although you might be able to find out through county plat books and such. Good luck to you and your boys and keep us posted of how it goes!!

 

[Benbuck6]

Was fun. A lot of trash and we did not dig much of it. I am definitely going back several times in the future. We hit one park I thought would be less trashy because no playground equipment had been on it since I was a kid, just empty 2 acre lot the city runs. It was much less digging and everything we did dig was DEEP. On 1 occassion I got a hit for a quarter - I began to dig and dig and dig and then I hit something HARD. We (the boys and I) began clearing the whole and what we had found was the corner of a building that had brick floors. Next to the brick we pulled what appeared to be some type of old chrome trim from something. Upon examination we could tell the grass was a little different in about 30' x 50' block. On the back side, we dug deep again and pulled a what's it - I will post pic later. It appears to be the top of an old liquor dipensor. I asked my mom what used to be there that was brick or had brick floors. She laughed and said the old Scout Hut. It was used for weekly Scout meetings and community used it for gatherings and parties. Alot of weird action on the detector I could not pin point...going back there too. Then I got permission from a friend of mine that still lives there that bought an old plantation house... Lets just say Plantation House - Old General Store - Old Post Office - STEAMBOAT port to get cotton from local small river to MS River. The Plantation house was the center of a community that had a population of 82 in 1895. Only house owner lives within a 1/2 mile of there now. I was so excited when she said we could hunt it - I offered her EVERYTHING I found as long as I could take pictures...she said keep everything take pics and email them to her - DEAL.
Most of all - we had fun.
Found alot of junk - a few what's its - and about $1.65 in clad.

 

[clovis97]

Wow! Sounds like some sweet spots to hunt!

 

[Woodland Detectors]

Your a good Dad!