daytondigger
Bronze Member
Met up with a local property owner I know who likes to buy old homes and restore them a couple weeks ago. He told me I needed to come out and "dig" on his latest property. When I got home I checked out the auditor's website and saw this picture.
I then saw it was listed as having been built in 1900. It looked much older to me and Joe says it was built in the 1860's. The first day the ground thawed I packed up my probes after work and headed on over. It didn't take long for me to probe up a brick-liner. The following Sunday Brandon and I started opening her up. Lots of roots, bricks and then the soup! It was holding a lot of water starting at about a foot down. We dug a hole in the corner and started bailing, working the rest of the hole down as the water level slowly dropped. At a foot and a half Brandon starts handing up Dayton Breweries bottles and a broken wine. All together 6 intact beers, a couple broken ones and the broken wine. Then we started seeing decorated yellow ware, things were looking up. It took us several hours to get down maybe 4 feet. We covered the hole up 'til the following Sunday. That day it was me, Brandon, Phil and Chuck tackling this 9 foot wet soupy mess in 20 degree windy weather. It was a nice oval brick liner, but we only came away that day with one nice local mug-based hutch and a few medicines etc. that dated to around the turn of the century. We've been unable to locate an additional pit and I almost think the auditor was right on the year built.
I then saw it was listed as having been built in 1900. It looked much older to me and Joe says it was built in the 1860's. The first day the ground thawed I packed up my probes after work and headed on over. It didn't take long for me to probe up a brick-liner. The following Sunday Brandon and I started opening her up. Lots of roots, bricks and then the soup! It was holding a lot of water starting at about a foot down. We dug a hole in the corner and started bailing, working the rest of the hole down as the water level slowly dropped. At a foot and a half Brandon starts handing up Dayton Breweries bottles and a broken wine. All together 6 intact beers, a couple broken ones and the broken wine. Then we started seeing decorated yellow ware, things were looking up. It took us several hours to get down maybe 4 feet. We covered the hole up 'til the following Sunday. That day it was me, Brandon, Phil and Chuck tackling this 9 foot wet soupy mess in 20 degree windy weather. It was a nice oval brick liner, but we only came away that day with one nice local mug-based hutch and a few medicines etc. that dated to around the turn of the century. We've been unable to locate an additional pit and I almost think the auditor was right on the year built.
