House, Shed, Barn?-UPDATE

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Peach; You will score big :icon_farao: on the digs at that house Wtg . Looking forward to see the finds !
 

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Methinks there will be a lot of re-newed interest in this thread! Myself included!
 

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It might pay to look inside that old piano. Be careful in
them old building and please show pics of your finds.
Have fun and good luck. Jimbob
 

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Felinepeachy said:
I asked what the place was and they said it's a 150 year old house and for years a "colored" family lived there and when they bought the property they even lived in it temporarily.
Juke Joint
 

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In this neck of the woods (deep South), I saw many, many houses shaped like that with two "front" doors when I was growing up. My aunt and uncle had one, in fact. One door led to the parlor/living room, the other to a bedroom. Few are left now because most weren't painted and were constructed with non-treated wood. In heavy humidity areas, they don't last many decades. It looks like the back bedroom was an add-on for more room or kitchen. The only one local that's left was featured in the newspaper about a year ago. It is still lived in. A wringer washing machine is on the front porch, and clothes generally hang from ropes stretched across the front porch. It was sealed back in the 40s with that fake brown brick-looking tar siding paper, so has held up fairly well, plus it's built up off the ground on blocks. No ground-to-board contact.

Really watch for varmints! And I'll bet that piano has real ivory keys. Yes, be sure to lift the top and check, and also drop down the knee panel. And looks like the ceiling/roof isn't too reliable, either. I'll be checking back! HH!!
 

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:hello:

Mia...it looks like a place were wild critters would go, and for some nice person to go along and feed them :wink:

SS
 

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dont forget to look for outlines of buildings not there anymore
there had to be more, over that 150yr period
HH dont forget the pics
 

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I found an ax head in a place like that one time. It was down about 4 inches and no sign of a handle. Cleaned up real nice. Someone had propped it up next to the house, and the rest is history.
 

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