Rockin Chairs Gold
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- Dec 18, 2010
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That's what I thought as well till this spring my wife goes and calls our newly elected Sherriff and asks the $64000 question and much to my suprise the answer was sure go ahead. Haven't found much yet but I've hunted less then 2 hours because of all the rain here locally this spring. The court house goes back to 1853 so I'm sure there are some goodies there to be found. Rick
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I would like to add the following information to this post. The reason I was so surprised we were given permission is about 7 years ago a group of young folks decided to through a booze and pot party on the court house lawn. They not only made one hell of a mess but they managed to distroy a brand new $25,000 Abraham Lincoln Bronze statue and plaque. This little venture not only stopped all loitering on the court house lawn, but put a curfew from 6:PM to 6:AM seven days a week.
I figured getting permission to hunt and dig on the court house lawn was a dead issue, not worth even bringing up. My wife and I was up there in April to pay our property tax's and my wife brings up the subject to the County Court House door guard ( A County Deputy) if there was any chance we might get permission. He said that with the sheriff that just went out that answer would have been no but we were getting a new Sheriff and it wouldn't hurt to ask.
As I said I was shocked he said sure go ahead. I spoke to him about letting them know when we would be up there and he said to just let the door guard know we would be there. We spoke to the door guard about Saturday and Sundays and he said to go ahead and if anyone said anything to have them contact the Sheriff or him. So far there has been nothing said to us except to ask if we are finding anything.
I guess that even in the worst of situations not all is hopeless. Rick
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I would like to add the following information to this post. The reason I was so surprised we were given permission is about 7 years ago a group of young folks decided to through a booze and pot party on the court house lawn. They not only made one hell of a mess but they managed to distroy a brand new $25,000 Abraham Lincoln Bronze statue and plaque. This little venture not only stopped all loitering on the court house lawn, but put a curfew from 6:PM to 6:AM seven days a week.
I figured getting permission to hunt and dig on the court house lawn was a dead issue, not worth even bringing up. My wife and I was up there in April to pay our property tax's and my wife brings up the subject to the County Court House door guard ( A County Deputy) if there was any chance we might get permission. He said that with the sheriff that just went out that answer would have been no but we were getting a new Sheriff and it wouldn't hurt to ask.
As I said I was shocked he said sure go ahead. I spoke to him about letting them know when we would be up there and he said to just let the door guard know we would be there. We spoke to the door guard about Saturday and Sundays and he said to go ahead and if anyone said anything to have them contact the Sheriff or him. So far there has been nothing said to us except to ask if we are finding anything.
I guess that even in the worst of situations not all is hopeless. Rick