Did not find this on a treasure hunt but in my moms things

[mamabear2]

Did not find this on a treasure hunt but in my mom's things

$10 scrip bond dated March 2, 1872. This from South Carolina where my ancestors lived for years before going to North Carolina. My mother was born in Greenville. Apparently one of my ancestors worked helping to build the Blue Ridge Railroad which was never completed. This may have belonged to my great Aunt Zella because she had alot of antiques when she died in 1977. She still had a buckboard wagon.

 

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[JerV3]

Re: Did not find this on a treasure hunt but in my mom's things

Nice looking bill

It's in great shape to

HH Jer

 

[mamabear2]

Re: Did not find this on a treasure hunt but in my mom's things

Nice looking bill

It's in great shape to

HH Jer

Thanks! My mother put it in a plastic slipcover to keep it that way.

 

[vayank54]

Re: Did not find this on a treasure hunt but in my mom's things

that is really cool. heres a link that had one like your listed at $110
http://www.donckelly.com/obsolete/sheheen13.html

 

[Mackaydon]

Re: Did not find this on a treasure hunt but in my mom's things

Great find!!
One for sale here for $220:
http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cach...script"+$10&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&ie=UTF-8

Don.....

 

[goldencoin]

Re: Did not find this on a treasure hunt but in my mom's things

make sure you don't have a slip cover with PVC, it'll ruin the bill- excellent find!

HH
-GC

 

[WhiteHunter]

Re: Did not find this on a treasure hunt but in my mom's things

Thats a cool find, keep it safe

 

[allen]

Re: Did not find this on a treasure hunt but in my mom's things

that is one great looking old bond !!

 

[mamabear2]

Re: Did not find this on a treasure hunt but in my mom's things

make sure you don't have a slip cover with PVC, it'll ruin the bill- excellent find!

HH
-GC

I don't think it has PVC because the bill is crisp and is in mint condition. No tears, stains, nothing.

 

[mamabear2]

Re: Did not find this on a treasure hunt but in my mom's things

that is one great looking old bond !!

Thanks!

 

[mamabear2]

Re: Did not find this on a treasure hunt but in my mom's things

Thats a cool find, keep it safe

Thanks I will! I looked it up on the internet under the name of the railroad company and this is the information that I came up with:

"It's impossible to walk the Blue Ridge Railroad Historical Trail," Jim claims, "without sensing the spirit of those who worked and lived there more than a century ago. At one time, 1,500 men, women, and children, mostly Irish immigrants, lived a rough existence on this mountainside, literally carving a railroad tunnel out of rock with their hands. They were carrying out the dream of a railroad line starting near Anderson and winding through the mountain foothills to end in Knoxville, Tennessee. Bankruptcy and the Civil War killed the dream, but the railroad bed and the tunnels remain." In 1974, Seneca's Boy Scout Troop 219 developed the trail as a Bicentennial project and maintains the trail to this day; it is listed on the National Register of Historic Railroad Trails and nationally recognized by the Boy Scouts of America. "The five-mile rail-trail begins at Stumphouse Mountain Tunnel Park . . . . The tunnel, measuring 25 feet high and 17 feet wide, extends 1,617 feet into the mountain, leaving visitors in a cool, enveloping darkness. In the 1950s, Clemson University used the tunnel's [environment] to help cure blue cheese. The trail winds past two smaller tunnels, which have long since filled in." Stumphouse Mountain Tunnel Park is off SC 28, near Walhalla in Oconee County. (For a map, contact Pendleton District Historical and Recreational Commission, PO Box 234, Pendleton SC 29670, ph. 803/646-3782.)

 

[Knightwalker]

Re: Did not find this on a treasure hunt but in my mom's things

Very nice find. It goes to show that not all treasure can be found with a detector on in the ground. Keep up the good work.
Good hunting.
Knightwalker

 

[ragu]

Re: Did not find this on a treasure hunt but in my mom's things

well if there were 1500 people working on that railroad bed and tunnel i bet there is some cool finds along that "trail"

 

[seger98]

Re: Did not find this on a treasure hunt but in my mom's things

That's a really neat piece, has to be priceless to you!