First cache hunt this week

[chopper]

So I'm up at the school where I teach on Sat. putting in a countertop with a parent that lives less than a mile from me as the crow flies. I was telling him about some of my recent finds and he starts telling me about his great great grandad killing himself in the woods back in the early 1900's. Dude was rich back in the day, owned thousands of acres, can't remember how he made his money. Anyway, this guy owns 150 acres right up against Ames Plantation and inherited it from his G-dad. It's the same land his GG G-dad owned and lived on, and same land gg g-dad offed himself on. Of course, the family never found his small iron kettle o' cash. Same ol' story right? His family hunted for it up until the 70's, everyone gave up, he kind of did too. He use to metal detect but not with a good machine and it's broken. I'm up to 3 now and offered to hunt w/ him. I started telling him about what I've read on this thread about chicken coops, land markers, window views, etc.
He seems eager to hunt with me this week, I'm gonna see about tomorrow after school.
Do I expect to find anything? Of course not. Dude could have drank or gambled away his money, got robbed and the "suicide" was a murder, or it could have been found, or his g-g.ma made the whole thing up and just used it to live the rest of her life on.
It's still excited though, I know the odds are one in a million but what the h3ll. The site had several nice 170 year old homes with slave quarters and a military road that ran right through, troops from the North and South filled the area during the C. War so this place has got to be loaded with goodies right?
Well I did say the same thing about Sherman's "Ammo dump" at Woodlawn.....We'll see.

[bootybay]

Well the only way to find out if its heresay is go on out and see if ya can find it... it sounds like a great adventure if ya ask me... and the current owner wants to hunt with ya, that makes it even cooler, permission granted.. several sites already on the property. You both will have a blast.. I cant wait to hear and see all about it...

wishing ya the bestest,
booty

[becket1]

Grid what you can and go acre by acre with two machines, and you'all are gonna have a sack of goodies with all that history going on, I am jealous!