The Seeker
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- Nov 21, 2005
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The Boys scout camp was started back in the 1930's . Today it is the Valley camp resort , I have been camping there for about 3 years and have a camper and site way back in the woods..One day I decided to go out and detect one of the old paths back behind my camper, Knowing all about the scout camp I found a few coins here and there..a few minutes later two hikers camp up to me and we started talking ,interested in the metal detector he asked a few questions about it...Then we got talking about the camp and he said he use to camp here when he was a boy....then through the years he became a cook here for the scouts and then the scout camp closed back in the 1960's ...
Now thinking about this place I asked him about the site and he told me their were 26 areas in this site where the boy scouts camped. I said are you serious that many he said yes all through the area ...Now as he and his friend made of down the path I am thinking there is no way all those areas have been detected..When I read the history at the store about this place it never mentioned about how many areas were here that the scouts camped just how old and the lake area....
Now I made my way down a path to the area where I have seen some old trees and a nice flat area which would look like a nice area to pitch tents...suddenly I started finding wheats , then some silver dimes , and scout items..I know I had found a undetected area and buy the end of the day I had found 46 coins and anumber of cool items....
The second time out I went back and started where i left off and found more coins and scout items ,then I made my way to another area towards my camper but up on a hill and again started finding more coins ,the first one was a washington quarter, more wheat backs and more Silver dimes....This was great and the stuff was in little areas here and there.... Now going back to the camper I knew I had a bunch of nice coins and items and when I got back and cleaned of the stuff I had 56 coins ....I had to call my friend TimH...told him and invited him out the following weekend.
Now the weekend came and we walked back to the area and started detecting ,within five minutes tim finds a silver religious medal and it was nice , we had a blast by the end of the day we had all kinds of coins Washington quarters,Mercury& rosies dimes, Indianheadand Silver war nickles, and a mess of wheat pennies .Plus a bunch of scout items...This is a nice site and thanks to the info the old timer gave me I might have not known what to look for. Now that we have found 3 of the 26 known sites this spring should be pretty interesting if we find the others....Hope you like the story and good luck in your future Digs!!!
Now thinking about this place I asked him about the site and he told me their were 26 areas in this site where the boy scouts camped. I said are you serious that many he said yes all through the area ...Now as he and his friend made of down the path I am thinking there is no way all those areas have been detected..When I read the history at the store about this place it never mentioned about how many areas were here that the scouts camped just how old and the lake area....
Now I made my way down a path to the area where I have seen some old trees and a nice flat area which would look like a nice area to pitch tents...suddenly I started finding wheats , then some silver dimes , and scout items..I know I had found a undetected area and buy the end of the day I had found 46 coins and anumber of cool items....
The second time out I went back and started where i left off and found more coins and scout items ,then I made my way to another area towards my camper but up on a hill and again started finding more coins ,the first one was a washington quarter, more wheat backs and more Silver dimes....This was great and the stuff was in little areas here and there.... Now going back to the camper I knew I had a bunch of nice coins and items and when I got back and cleaned of the stuff I had 56 coins ....I had to call my friend TimH...told him and invited him out the following weekend.
Now the weekend came and we walked back to the area and started detecting ,within five minutes tim finds a silver religious medal and it was nice , we had a blast by the end of the day we had all kinds of coins Washington quarters,Mercury& rosies dimes, Indianheadand Silver war nickles, and a mess of wheat pennies .Plus a bunch of scout items...This is a nice site and thanks to the info the old timer gave me I might have not known what to look for. Now that we have found 3 of the 26 known sites this spring should be pretty interesting if we find the others....Hope you like the story and good luck in your future Digs!!!
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